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Lerner: Airbnb turned trust and safety into an offensive growth driver
“Airbnb is a good example, actually, where trust and safety becomes offense because like a core barrier for Airbnb is this idea that like, I mean, somebody else's home, right? Like that's a core barrier to value delivery for your product. And so that's a place …”
Lerner: Middle zone for marketplace network effect startups is empty
“You've got your Instacart, your Uber, your Lyft. They've kind of, like, gotten to where they need to be. There isn't actually very many people in that middle zone in terms of Marketplace network effects today.”
Yelp sold Eat24 to Grubhub for double its acquisition price
“Now we bought a company called eat 24 is a food delivery startup. And so I kind of got dropped in to be had a product for that subsidiary helped grow that business. This wasn't our original intent, but we actually sold it to Grubhub just about two years later …”