Episode Details

Sarah Tavel (@sarahtavel), partner at Benchmark, and Nabeel Hyatt (@nabeel), partner at Spark Capital, join Erik on this episode.

They discuss:

- Why they love investing in marketplaces and the evolution of marketplaces over the last decade.

- Why the wave of Uber For X startups didn’t take off.

- How they evaluate marketplaces, and why founders get confused about “which race they’re running” when creating a marketplace startup.

- Where they’re excited about seeing more marketplaces and which spaces they advise founders to avoid.

- The impact of SoftBank and their analysis of the current crop of public marketplace companies.

- Common mistakes they see founders making in marketplace startups.

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