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How Whatnot's Live Shopping Beats Traditional E-Commerce
- ▶ 17:17 David George Um, and one of the historical knocks I've heard people say about whatnot is, well, you know, Etsy's only so big, or eBay is only so big.
Dylan Patel on GPT-5’s Router Moment, GPUs vs TPUs, Monetization
- ▶ 6:50 Dylan Patel It's like, you know, it's like Etsy, 10% of their traffic now comes from chat.
- ▶ 12:58 Dylan Patel Because, like, we know, everyone knows that, like, Anthropic and OpenAI and all the other labs are buying RL environments of Amazon and of, like, Shopify and of Etsy and of all the different ways to shop on the internet.
Marketplace Tactics: Metrics, Growth vs. Focus, Business Strategy | Field Notes by Connie Chan
- ▶ 8:37 Deb Liu And the same thing is true for, you know, if you look at Etsy, like they're just not going to be in used cars and parts and things that are really strong. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:03 Connie Chan Cause Etsy started with handmade things. 5 times in the scene
Gamers are Entering a New Era of Monetization
- ▶ 14:18 Kevin Chou Imagine that there's something like an in-game Etsy where creators and artists can create new skins and costumes and looks for other players.
Five Open Problems for the Blockchain Computer
- ▶ 42:32 unnamed speaker Sort of LinkedIn is sort of the, the trusted entity to manage your resume and present your resume, and eBay is sort of the trusted marketplace where the sellers, or Etsy, is sort of the trusted place where you sort of send money and expect…
a16z Podcast | How the Internet Happened
- ▶ 37:53 Chris Dixon Well, and look, Amazon too, like you have some great new, you know, Etsy comes along and then Amazon launches, I don't know how well it's done, but Amazon homemade or whatever, you know, Instagram comes along and they launch it, you know,…
a16z Podcast | Trends in Cryptocurrencies
- ▶ 5:46 Olaf Carlson-Wee Many of the major Web two point O companies that have seen a substantial growth in the last 15 years, this is Twitter, Tumblr, Etsy, eBay, Uber, every single one of these companies could someday see competition from a peer peer-to-peer…
a16z Podcast | Cryptocurrencies, App Coins, and Investing in Protocols
- ▶ 8:34 Olaf Carlson-Wee You know, Twitter, Facebook, Uber, Etsy, eBay, whatever it might be.
a16z Podcast | An Economics Take on the Sharing Economy
- ▶ 4:40 Arun Sundararajan Or by running your small business on Etsy.
- ▶ 9:46 Arun Sundararajan So by the same argument, if we increase the fraction of the population who are owners, if we shift people away from being labor providers and towards being owners of tiny short-term accommodation businesses on Airbnb, of tiny retail…
a16z Podcast | Banking on the Blockchain
- ▶ 11:46 William Mougayar There are no fees that, uh, eBay or Etsy, whoever is in the middle, is going to be asking the sellers, uh, typically.
a16z Podcast | E-commerce, Payments, & More in India's Evolving Retail Landscape
- ▶ 11:46 Sonal Chokshi That's what happens actually on eBay and Etsy in the U.S.
a16z Podcast | Building Marketplaces with the Power of Community
- ▶ 2:33 unnamed speaker Um, we now have looked at many other types of communities, for example, um, Airbnb, to see how they form and grow community around their site, although the business is slightly different, um, to businesses like Etsy, Uber, yeah.
- ▶ 12:33 Boris Wurtz I, you know, I, I, I think Etsy has done a fantastic job of, of building a community. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:03 unnamed speaker I think that's a great question, and I think if you look at the marketplaces today, all of the marketplaces that we've been talking about so far were founded, generally speaking, maybe 10 years ago, five to 10 years ago, Etsy, eBay, et…
- ▶ 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.
A Whirlwind Tour Through Tech Trends in China
- ▶ 14:49 Connie Chan Kodai has a product called Weidian, and in Weidian, any user in China can easily create their own Shopify, Etsy type store, which means that they're selling things that either they make, or things that they bought abroad, or things that…