A Crowded Space

MARCH 13, 2012

Every marketplace deals with disintermediation: oDesk, eBay, Airbnb, CustomMade, and Etsy. This is known as disintermediation. . From Wikipedia: In economics, disintermediation is the removal of intermediaries in a supply chain: “cutting out the middleman”. . What causes disintermediation? . This is simple.

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A Crowded Space

APRIL 10, 2013

Those people will be incredibly motivated to help the company, to increase their earnings, and to invest in their online reputation. They will not care much about their online reputation, they will not drive turnaround times lower, and they will be disintermediation risks. It’s the full timer who will do that. .

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Urs Cete, the Head of Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments , notes, “If you think you can provide just money, you will be disintermediated.”. It comes as no surprise as technology today enables companies to prove product-market fit much earlier in their lifecycles. Now practically everyone is getting involved in Series A.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 30, 2017

Primarily because we got our first real everyday access to products and services that used some form of AI to delight us. The current crop of Analytics tools are getting better and better at the known knowns , the process of disintermediation of the humans doing that work is only going to accelerate… And then that work will disappear.

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A Crowded Space

APRIL 11, 2016

Weak marketplaces suffer from disintermediation, pricing pressure, and destructive competition. At oDesk, we started with a 50%+ take rate but quickly lowered that to 30% and then 10% as we became more self-service and also wanted to lock up the market and prevent any disintermediation.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

In the race to build a great software product, engineering talent is oxygen. It’s hard to recruit against a profitable enterprise with a “wow” campus, unmatched employee benefits, and a reputation that’s leagues beyond your tiny new company. Hiring is what enables you to execute your product roadmap.

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