marketplace

also referred to as: marketplaces

11 statements across 11 episodes · 3 bullish · 4 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Feb 25, 2016 by Nick Kneuper · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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Feb 25, 2016
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Electric Styles generated 65% of sales on marketplaces in first two years
“For the first two years, it was like, you know, 65, 35. Like, we were, it was definitely, the 65 was marketplaces, right? And the 35 was their website.”
Nick Kneuper Feb 25, 2016 ▶ 13:13 From Student to $10m Entrepreneur with Nick Kneuper of Electric Threads Ep 4
Apr 20, 2019 negative
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Latka: Clients often disintermediate marketplaces to avoid fees
“The thing I found with marketplace is even when you look at like a fiver or like these guys is like once, once somebody finds someone they like working with in terms of a company like working with, they typically end up taking it out of your marketplace. So yo…”
Nathan Latka Apr 20, 2019 ▶ 14:10 1365 He's Paid $250k to Travel Influencers on Behalf of Brands
May 20, 2019 positive
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Patel: Marketplace enterprise SaaS deals close much faster than typical nine-month cycles
“So whether you're spending 20,000 dollars ARR or 250,000 dollars ARR, it doesn't follow the usual tax economics of, well, a 300,000 dollar deal should take nine months to close. Not true. Nobody has nine months in this market. If you're trying to like keep Ube…”
Samir Patel May 20, 2019 ▶ 13:59 1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR
Nov 7, 2019 negative
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Latka: Marketplaces cannot improve economics for both buyers and suppliers simultaneously
“So like, see, the thing is with a marketplace is it gets cheaper on one side, but more expensive on the other, right? So that trade-off has to exist. You can't have both sides doing better.”
Nathan Latka Nov 7, 2019 ▶ 13:51 1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months
Jul 15, 2020 neutral
Assertion Supported
Freightos generates more net revenue from SaaS than marketplace commissions
“Net SaaS is still bigger than marketplace in terms of our net revenue.”
Zvi Schreiber Jul 15, 2020 ▶ 13:17 Freightos: Can they win the Shipping wars?
Sep 27, 2020 negative
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Fantapi: Scaling a Marketplace Burns Capital and Degrades Quality Control
“Scaling a marketplace requires a lot of money, and you lose control of the quality of the service that is provided.”
Alberto Fantapi Sep 27, 2020 ▶ 12:47 Wemby Hits $100k Revenue Giving Your Team Therapy Sessions
Sep 8, 2021 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Third-party developers built 1,400 applications on Keboola's marketplace
“So there was, there's actually 1400 apps in our marketplace, which was created by 400 different developers.”
Pavel Dolezal Sep 8, 2021 ▶ 11:03 DevOps SaaS Data Tool Breaks $4.9m ARR Bootstrapped Using Its Marketplace To Grow
Jan 16, 2023 negative
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Doug Wolf: Doing Startups for Too Long Makes You Unhirable
“If you do startups for too long, you are not, you are, you become unhirable in the marketplace.”
Doug Wolf Jan 16, 2023 ▶ 14:44 Bootstrapped team of 2 hits $15k in MRR for video editing tool
Dec 5, 2023 neutral
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Latka: Marketplace Success Depends on Feature Sequencing, Not Generating New Ideas
“When you sit on so much data, the hard problem is not, like, I didn't just give you some brand new idea you never thought of, you know about that idea, but the hard part and who wins marketplace is it's actually what do you decide to launch first, second, thir…”
Nathan Latka Dec 5, 2023 ▶ 14:39 $100m in revenue selling software to 27,000 AirBNB hosts?
Dec 19, 2023 positive
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Clayton: Marketplaces must build full SaaS tool suites to succeed
“One reason why I envy SaaS founders is like, I had to build all that anyway. Like I got to build the route optimization. I got to build the CRM. I got to build the biddings. I got to build the review system. I got to build every single system to make it work. …”
Brian Clayton Dec 19, 2023 ▶ 7:17 How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees
Dec 17, 2025 neutral
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Malinan: Enterprise clients ignore cloud marketplaces to demand custom-tailored deals
“An enterprise, they couldn't care less about the marketplaces. They want the fine tailor deals. They are very aggressive in terms of the negotiations and all that.”
Vlad Malinan Dec 17, 2025 ▶ 19:57 Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder Story
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