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What’s next for marketplace startups? Reinventing the $10 trillion service economy, that’s what.

Andrew Chen

Let’s start by looking at where the service economy is right now and why it’s resisted a full scale transformation by software. It’s a huge leap in terms of user experience over Craigslist’s Childcare section. Five strategies for unlocking supply in regulated markets. Future opportunities. The “Uber for X” Era (2009-).

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28 ways to grow supply in a marketplace — by Lenny Rachitsky, ex-Airbnb

Andrew Chen

While both consumer marketplaces are very different — one is a city-by-city transportation service, the other a global network of homes — they also share a lot of similarities too: Both were founded within a year of each other, quickly found network effects, made major design innovations that made the consumer experience 10X better, and much more.

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28 ways to grow supply in a marketplace — by Lenny Rachitsky, ex-Airbnb

Andrew Chen

While both consumer marketplaces are very different — one is a city-by-city transportation service, the other a global network of homes — they also share a lot of similarities too: Both were founded within a year of each other, quickly found network effects, made major design innovations that made the consumer experience 10X better, and much more.