Take Rate

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TBPN Insight
Romero: Decentralized social networks must have near-zero take rates to win
“The way for them to win is to have it be as close to zero take rate as possible.”
Dan Romero May 31, 2025 ▶ 1:43:42 Weekend Special: Elon Recap, Balaji, Chris Dixon, Brian Armstrong, Crypto Day + Thiel Fellows
ALL-IN Insight
Chamath: High-GTV marketplace businesses cannot defend take rates long term
“History has shown that these kinds of businesses cannot defend take rate for a very long period of time, whether it's for competitive pressure, or whether it's because their suppliers actually develop more pricing power. Take rate tends to decay.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Sep 22, 2023 ▶ 52:50 E146: Did the Fed break the VC model? Plus IPOs, M&A, revaluing unicorns & more
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
MyHQ takes a 30% cut on $200 monthly workspace bookings
“So we make roughly about 60 in that.”
Utkarsh Kawatra Sep 8, 2023 ▶ 3:51 The King of India Workspaces: How he Logged 20k Bookings Last Month and Took Home $30,000
ACQUIRED Insight
Khosrowshahi: High Take Rates Are Dangerous for Marketplaces
“So, I will answer somewhat seriously, which is high take rates are dangerous. So, our job as a company is to grow volume as much as we can, as fast as we can. And make your shareholders happy enough. Yep. Minimizing the take rate, which is taking as much of th…”
Dara Khosrowshahi Jun 13, 2023 ▶ 1:25:43 Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi · Acquired
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Haber: Healthcare startup Juniper takes a 3% to 5% take rate
“By the way, they get paid three to five percent just for that, right, for delivering that technology and improving efficiency, which historically has been a very manual, you know, process for a lot of these providers with, you know, a couple of folks in the ba…”
David Haber May 9, 2023 ▶ 28:06 When Two Giants Intersect: Healthcare Meets Fintech
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rokt boosts add-on product take rates by 50% to 60%
“So if you sell insurance or whatever through rock and a customer's buying an airline ticket, you'll sell 60% more insurance because we get the right product, the right price. In front of that consumer when they're buying, we can manage the consumer relevancy a…”
Bruce Buchanan Mar 22, 2021 ▶ 8:11 Rokt Breaks $90m Gross Profit Coming out of Pandemic, 3 Revenue LInes, $500m+ Valuation?
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Volodarsky: Lemon.io Maintains an Average 25% Take Rate
“Our take rate is around 25%. It depends from the project to project, depending on the rate, but the average is 25%.”
Alexander Volodarsky Jan 15, 2021 ▶ 3:42 Lemon.io Did $2.73m Connecting Developers with Jobs, Keeps 25%
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Picatic takes an average 4% cut on gross ticket revenue
“We take about four percent off that, so.”
Jayesh Parmar Oct 3, 2017 ▶ 12:12 801: The $60M King of Ticket Sales
20VC Insight
Wertz: Gross merchandise sales and take rate define marketplace potential
“I think gross merchandise sales and take rate. I mean, gross merchandise sales being kind of the top line kind of what is the volume you're creating for your marketplace and then take rate is what do you take out of that? I mean, what are your revenues relativ…”
Boris Wertz Dec 28, 2015 ▶ 26:32 20 VC: The Ultimate Guide To Marketplaces with Boris Wertz, Founding Partner @ Version One Ventures

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