SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2025

Software engineering teams have been early adopters of AI coding assistants precisely because they provide an immediate, measurable lift. Laiva Becoming the platform of choice for life science companies and research institutions by creating a two-sided marketplace with significant SaaS components. This is exactly backward.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

We pulled from my prior marketplaces experience and dove into their business quickly to develop a point-of-view on the opportunity. Prior to founding Instacart, Apoorva was a fulfillment optimization software engineer from Amazon. Both offered consumers a ton of convenience through their service. billion to $20.7

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Marketplace as a Service Underperforming Technical Team Scale Construction 140

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. I want to talk about how we got to the business model that we have at Lambda School because it’s one of the things that separates us from other schools. Uber is a classic marketplace company. It’s a two-sided marketplace.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. I didn’t want to pay for this service.” And then you’re gonna have as a merchant, as SaaS business so many charges due to that.

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