Zillow and the Innovator's Dilemma

Zillow and the Innovator's Dilemma - The Flywheel

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Opportunity for Technology to Add Value. Zillow gives homebuyers access to a lot of data that was previously kept in proprietary systems. Using Uber's system, you can use more cars, earn more fares per hour, and get a faster pickup. Facilitating work-flow helps participants do more, and increases switching costs.

Bill Gurley • All Markets Are Not Created Equal: 10 Factors To Consider When Evaluating Digital Marketplaces - Above the Crowd

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In order to grow their demand high enough to become a beneficial flywheel, Barton’s companies use a Data Content Loop to bootstrap their demand and create unique content and index an industry online (homes for Zillow, hotels and flights for Expedia, companies for Glassdoor).-Expedia: Prices for flights and hotels that before you’d have to get from ... See more

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Opendoor is the most similar company to Amazon on the market. It is spinning a powerful flywheel and controls its own profitability vs. growth lever.

Packy McCormick • Knock Knock. Who's There? Opendoor.

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These successful companies in most cases weren’t true platforms, but aggregators, locking in demand and exerting central control.

Brian Flynn • Reputation in Web3: Ships Built on the Great Flood

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One of my fundamental insights along with Lloyd Frank, who's my co-founder at Zillow, and was at Microsoft, and Expedia, and Zillow with me as well, was that a regular person armed with a connected PC that's plugged into the internet was going to in effect, storm the best deal. Was going to be armed with a weapon to tear down every wall that separa... See more

Invest like the Best • Thriving in Changing Markets

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What’s On Deck for Business School - The Flywheel

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Opendoor vs. Zillow: A Tale of Two Pricing Models — Mike DelPrete - Real Estate Tech Strategist

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Pure Market Innovation For businesses that were once cash-only, Square provides credit card processing. Square was founded in 2009 and used a new combination of technologies to solve a problem, but it wasn't the technological innovation that Square used. Uber's technologies weren't new in 2009. They could have launched ten years ago. When it came t... See more

Jerry Neumann • Disruption Is Not a Strategy

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