Building and Investing in Marketplaces

When considering building a marketplace, there are many decisions you have to make upfront, particularly whether they want to own the infrastructure or partner with the best-in-class partner or provider. For example, if you were starting a marketplace four or five years ago, you probably were building a lot of this stuff yourself. But suppose I’m b... See more

n the last few years, we’ve seen a rise in the number of full-stack or managed marketplaces, or marketplaces that take on additional operational value-add in terms of intermediating the service delivery. While “Uber for X” models were well-suited to simple services, managed marketplaces evolved to better tackle services that were more complex, high... See more