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a16z Podcast | Building Marketplaces with the Power of Community
- ▶ 0:52 Boris Wurtz So I was an entrepreneur that, um, that built a marketplace called eight books, um, which was a marketplace for hard to find books that we sold to Amazon in, in 2008.
- ▶ 7:39 unnamed speaker So Abebook's obviously built a very powerful community, and still to this day, I find people who are Abebook fanatics, um, and so, given that you eventually sold that business to Amazon, before that, that point in time, how did you handle… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:33 Boris Wurtz And, you know, at books, the one thing that has had always had great effect was offline events. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:42 Boris Wurtz Um, I think when, when we talked about, uh, the, uh, the marketplace before, Airbnb, Etsy, or Tinder and A-books, these were all unique products.