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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…”
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.”
Relationship marketplaces should charge high upfront fees to prevent platform leakage
“And it's very hard, you know, especially for in, in markets like that, where it's very easy to take off platform, then maybe you want to charge a lot upfront and a little later, because if you're charging, say, 20% all along the way, at some point, I would jus…”
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…”
US e-commerce relies on credit card chargebacks instead of true payment escrow
“Well, one thing that the US has never done is true escrow and a lot of other countries like in China, for example, they really do escrow where you have to accept the item. To basically release the funds. In essence, in the U S the difference is that we have cr…”
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…”
Marketplaces must design defenses against seller, buyer, and collusion fraud from inception
“It should be absolutely core to how the product is set up. So one of the biggest challenges you see in marketplaces is, you know, it's people can, there's seller fraud, there's buyer fraud and there's collusion fraud. And every marketplace needs to think about…”
Paid user acquisition cannot solve a marketplace's long-term buyer retention problems
“One of the big issues that marketplaces have is you can always bring more people through the door with enough dollars. The question is, can you deepen your relationship with them? What is your actual 30 day, 90 day, 180 day retention?”
Low-cost, high-frequency sales build deeper marketplace user dependency than high-dollar purchases
“Like I'd rather you buy a, you know, two dollar kind of tube of toothpaste here than 200 dollars, right? Because it's all about frequency of use because now you're really dependent on it.”
Amazon uses the Buy Box to lock in top marketplace sellers
“What Amazon does is they offer the buy box, right? Once you earn into the buy box, you don't want to leave. And so you're incented to drive more sales to that channel.”
Poshmark achieved step-function growth by negotiating a flat-rate USPS shipping deal
“You can see these kind of step functions you see with Poshmark, just having the flat rate shipping that they negotiated for shoes, for example, or for their goods was really hugely inventive because they worked with the USPS and everyone has access To that in …”