Deb Liu

7 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 12, 2023 by Deb Liu · across every show →

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Apr 12, 2023
Assertion Supported
Blackstone interviewed Ancestry CEO Deb Liu entirely on Zoom after $4.7B acquisition
“You're picking a CEO for a company they had just bought for 4.7 billion dollars. Blackstone did the entire interview process in zoom.”
Deb Liu Apr 12, 2023 ▶ 1:08 Marketplace Tactics: Metrics, Growth vs. Focus, Business Strategy | Field Notes by Connie Chan
Apr 12, 2023 negative
Opinion
Deb Liu argues eBay failed to serve any individual vertical category effectively
“What eBay did really well was all of the categories, but what they did poorly was any individual category.”
Deb Liu Apr 12, 2023 ▶ 7:39 Marketplace Tactics: Metrics, Growth vs. Focus, Business Strategy | Field Notes by Connie Chan
Apr 14, 2023 negative
Insight
Promotion committees judge employees disproportionately on their presence in large meetings
“In the calibration committee, it's all the people who only see you in the bigger rooms. And so if you're not showing up, the people who are deciding whether you get promoted, how your ratings are, They're, there's, what they see is the five percent, and they'r…”
Deb Liu Apr 14, 2023 ▶ 2:51 Marketplace Breakout Strategies: Take Rates, Defensibility, Payments | Field Notes by Connie Chan
Apr 14, 2023 positive
Insight
Local marketplaces often fail by expanding nationally before achieving city-level density
“Well, local is all about density. Density, density, density, and you know, people really kind of open too many markets at the same time, but if you can get product market fit in one city and then the next one and next one, and I think Uber did a really good th…”
Deb Liu Apr 14, 2023 ▶ 11:24 Marketplace Breakout Strategies: Take Rates, Defensibility, Payments | Field Notes by Connie Chan
Apr 14, 2023 negative
Insight
Employees should actively participate in meetings or skip them entirely
“It's like, either be present or don't go. And I think sometimes we have this kind of, well, just observe and absorb. And that's just, you're not in school. That's not how the workplace works.”
Deb Liu Apr 14, 2023 ▶ 1:52 Marketplace Breakout Strategies: Take Rates, Defensibility, Payments | Field Notes by Connie Chan
Apr 14, 2023
Insight
Category-specific marketplace user experiences are difficult to replicate across different product categories
“And I think that's the thing is each of them, these marketplaces appeal to that specific category, but it's very hard to replicate that in other categories. And so, you know, you could probably go to home goods and, you know, I mean, Poshmark, but could you re…”
Deb Liu Apr 14, 2023 ▶ 17:28 Marketplace Breakout Strategies: Take Rates, Defensibility, Payments | Field Notes by Connie Chan
Apr 14, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
Slotting fees are critical revenue because grocery store margins are extremely low
“And so you access buying that shelf space and it's called slotting fees. It's such an important part of the grocery business because grocery margins are actually very, very low.”
Deb Liu Apr 14, 2023 ▶ 8:28 Marketplace Breakout Strategies: Take Rates, Defensibility, Payments | Field Notes by Connie Chan
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