Kadavy: Consumer-facing SaaS marketplaces will proliferate
Annie Kadavy · 20VC: Why Bots Are The New Black, Conversational Interface Is The Next of For Consumerisation and The Determinants Of A Successful Marketplace with Annie Kadavy, General Partner @ CRV · Jun 22, 2016 · at 17:58
Annie Kadavy, General Partner at CRV, discusses the evolution of hybrid software and marketplace business models.
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“We'll see more of these kind of consumer, I think of them as consumer facing SaaS marketplaces.”
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