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How to build a billion dollar digital marketplace – examples from Uber, eBay, Craigslist, and more

Andrew Chen

Since the 2014 article, Uber has blown past his estimate by 10X, with top line revenues to support it. The reason the estimate was so off, as investor Bill Gurley pointed out , is that Uber goes beyond taxi use cases and grows the market substantially by unlocking many new categories of transportation. with just 50 employees.

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10 Effective Company Core Values Examples To Take Inspiration From

Vantage Circle

It also incorporates environmental issues like sustainable transportation, renewable energy storage, and climate change mitigation. "Companies should have values like people do" – Tim Cook From 8,000 (Approx) employees and $7 billion in revenue in 1997 to 154,000 (Approx) employees and $394.33

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Organizational Development: Theories on Organizational Change

Walk Me

This action involves ongoing improvement to reduce costs and increase revenue to allow more significant profits, all directed by qualitative and quantitative metrics and analysis. Operations management influences how a company uses organizational resources to create and transport products and services to external and internal stakeholders.

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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.

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a16z Podcast: Why paid marketing sucks, Network effects, Viral Growth, and more

Andrew Chen

So not revenue per CAC is that you know typically there’s cost associated to user. And you can start to draw conclusions, sort of a natural A/B test in order to do that. Jeff: Well, let’s break them down. LTV is lifetime value. > To the company, yeah.