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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

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In November of this year, the company announced that it had achieved “substantially” more than $1B in revenue in the third quarter. Assuming a marketplace rake of something like 11%, this would imply gross room revenue of over $9B for the quarter — which would be $36B annualized. billion of GSV (gross services revenue) across 2.0

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). might have been a lot less differentiated. This allowed followers to be able to “curate&# their newsfeed with people that they found interesting. cheap accessible digital hardware].