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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. Today, Craigslist in over 57,000 cities, generating $700M in revenue per year (on job listings fees!) Optimization : A/B testing growth levers – from email/SMS/push copy – to when/how to reach out.

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

Andrew Chen

The biggest gains in optimization don’t come from brute-force A/B tests, but from trying to understand the real barriers to people using your product. Increase benefits: Guaranteed revenue, online payments. Question: Is this a channel your competition hasn’t tried yet? Tactic #17: Optimize conversion. Examples : Airbnb?—?Reduce

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Organizational Development: Theories on Organizational Change

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The changes asked of team members can be small, such as moving to new workflow software or keeping digital records of their project progress. 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.

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

Andrew Chen

The biggest gains in optimization don’t come from brute-force A/B tests, but from trying to understand the real barriers to people using your product. Increase benefits: Guaranteed revenue, online payments. Question: Is this a channel your competition hasn’t tried yet? Tactic #17: Optimize conversion. Examples : Airbnb?—?Reduce

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How to build a growth team – lessons from Uber, Hubspot, and others (50 slides)

Andrew Chen

There’s a long laundry list of skills that are critical, but not often considered core to the product: adtech integrations, signup funnel A/B testing, optimizing notification delivery, testing price points, testing cohort curves, etc. Yes, occasionally there are people who know all of it – but they are rare!