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A Critical, but Ignored Metric for Marketplaces

A Crowded Space

oDesk’s core user base in the beginning was a very small (about 50) number of php programmers in Russia that we quickly employed nearly full-time. In contrast, if you don’t have people that are relying on you for their primary income, you’ll have a very fickle audience. Uber has full time drivers.

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