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Tai: Marketplaces struggle to retain suppliers if not core to their business
“Keeping dealers engaged at scale was challenging because like, if you're not growing rapidly and like, you know, you're just kind of this tiny little part of the dealer's business, you're not fundamental to the dealer's business. Like sometimes they'll pay att…”
Tai: 4-to-8-year purchase cycles make consumer marketplace acquisition exceptionally expensive
“When you think about from a marketplace standpoint, for me, as on Haggle, to actually have to find your attention at the right moment in time in that four, six, eight year, you know time span where you're buying a car and then actually convert you know, proper…”
Tai: Prospective customer feedback is naturally biased positive
“When you go talk to someone about, hey, like, this is my idea, right, what do you think? You, I, oftentimes the answer's naturally just biased towards the positive.”
Tai: Product-market fit means seeing more actionable opportunities than challenges
“I think more practically, I think it just, you start seeing more opportunities than challenges. Like In the marketplace days, especially in the early days, it's just, if you would, we would, it felt like we saw way more challenges than, you know, opportunities…”
Tai: Unhaggle abandoned its consumer marketplace despite three years of revenue growth
“I'd say maybe like almost three years where, where we really focused hard on. And like the problem sometimes is it wasn't like going terrible in the sense that like, you know, we were growing revenues and we were growing, you know, month over month and year ov…”