Promiscuous Supply & Marketplace Network Effects

Kevin LaBuz
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.

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Kevin LaBuz

Head of IR & Corporate Development at 1stDibs. Previously finance at Etsy, Indeed, and internet equity research at Deutsche Bank. Find me on Twitter @kjlabuz.