Promiscuous Supply & Marketplace Network Effects
5 min readApr 24, 2022
At scale, online marketplaces are fantastic businesses. However, a crop of startups is aiming to chip away at marketplace networks effect by making multi-tenanting easier for suppliers.
Keeping It 100
Since 2020, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), a venture capital firm, has released the Marketplace 100, a list of the top 100 private online marketplaces. The report ranks startups based marketplace activity, a combination of app activity, website traffic, and GMV.