Hot off the presses, the 31st edition of The Marketplace Snippet curated by Paola and Mathias on behalf of the Speedinvest Marketplaces & Consumer team 🚀
The Marketplace Snippet is a monthly newsletter featuring the most interesting content on Marketplaces.
In this edition:
Dan Rose shares lessons from 20 years of experience as an operator at Facebook and Amazon
It’s Instacart’s 10th birthday and founder, Apoorva Mehta, shares defining moments since launching
Neeraj Arora, ex-Chief Business Officer of WhatsApp, on what went wrong with the sale to Facebook
a16z releases its first-ever data-driven overview and analysis on the state of Web3 and crypto
Jeff Jordan uncovers how to build and invest in businesses that create consumer marketplaces
More on these topics and additional thought-provoking discussions below.
If you’ve missed past newsletters or simply can’t get enough, catch up here.
Jeff Jordan, GP at a16z, has some of the most interesting experiences in marketplaces. He is sharing learnings as an operator at eBay.com, PayPal, and OpenTable, and as an investor in Airbnb, Instacart, and Pinterest.
In this Twitter 🧵 Jared Sleeper, Head of US at Steadview Capital breaks down the bull/bear arguments, discusses a potential POV, and shares a link to the model used to derive it.
The pair of Partners from our Marketplaces & Consumer team dive into the cold start problem and how to overcome it; how they evaluate early-stage deals; Web 3.0, DAO, crypto, and much more!
Utrecht-based Smiler spot photography marketplace Smiler connects photographers and customers in tourist hotspots and secures a €7.4M Seed round to expand across Europe.
Berlin-based Bliq has secured $13.5M in Series A to boost earnings for gig economy drivers in the on-demand mobility sector across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
With a total of $3.4M raised to date, Raus’ extra capital will help it invest in product development, proprietary technologies and expand across Germany.
Momentum in marketplaces continues in 2022 with 48 deals closed in May and continued investor appetite for network effects businesses, including some of our own here at Speedinvest.
Our portfolio companies are always hiring exceptional talent. If you or someone you know would love to work in a fast-paced marketplace startup, check out the open jobs at our startups here.
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