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

Andrew Chen

The travel is intensive. Sometimes there will be stronger cross-network growth across geographies than you initially imagine, enabled by factors like Airbnb’s global travel use case, which can supercharge your addressable market. Then people asked if I could pass on a post about a job or something for sale.

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2018 essay collection on growth metrics, marketplaces, viral growth in the enterprise, and more (PDF included)

Andrew Chen

Dear readers, Wow, so 2018 was a year with a lot of change – I started a new job, recommitted myself to writing (and tweeting), traveled a little too much, moved back down to Palo Alto (temporarily!), Conservation of Intent: The hidden reason why A/B tests aren’t as effective as they look. and much more.

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

Andrew Chen

affordable and unique travel experiences for guests, and great income for hosts. Question: What’s the simplest way you can test a referrals offering? Tactic #4: Run direct sales. To launch a city, we’d travel there and hold a meetup. Converting travelers to hosts definitely moved the needle when we launched a new market.

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2018 essay collection on growth metrics, marketplaces, viral growth in the enterprise, and more (PDF included)

Andrew Chen

Dear readers, Wow, so 2018 was a year with a lot of change – I started a new job, recommitted myself to writing (and tweeting), traveled a little too much, moved back down to Palo Alto (temporarily!), Conservation of Intent: The hidden reason why A/B tests aren’t as effective as they look. and much more.

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The red flags and magic numbers that investors look for in your startup’s metrics – 80 slide deck included!

Andrew Chen

Of course, as an investor you can’t run A/B tests or analyze results directly, but you can form hypotheses, ideate, and apply the same type of thinking. Maybe you’re international – an important use case for travel-oriented apps like Uber. 3) And finally, to prioritize and make decisions that impact the future.

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

Andrew Chen

affordable and unique travel experiences for guests, and great income for hosts. Question: What’s the simplest way you can test a referrals offering? Tactic #4: Run direct sales. To launch a city, we’d travel there and hold a meetup. Converting travelers to hosts definitely moved the needle when we launched a new market.

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What to look for when you’re hiring a Head of Growth

Andrew Chen

Similarly, product folks from highly quantitative categories like travel, games, and marketplaces tend to do well. Direct sales and product-led viral growth for most B2B collaboration apps. There were projects to help with A/B testing (Morpheus!), It helps if they show a deep quantitative interest in business.

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