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Re:How Billion Dollar Marketplaces Are Built by AndrewKemendo on Sunday January 05, 2020 @05:02PM (#21964469)
I'm increasingly convinced that building a marketplace or a social network is the wrong way to think about it.

Rather it should be conceptualized as moving or consolidating an existing market or network.

The best ones actually lower the friction for socially beneficial outcomes.

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Re:How Billion Dollar Marketplaces Are Built by josephjrobison on Sunday January 05, 2020 @05:15PM (#21964539)
A good example of this that comes to mind on a very small scale is a marketing slack community (TTT) that essentially took a loose network that already existed and gave them a home.
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