In this special, one-off mini-episode of Two-sided, Sjoerd asks for your help and reflects back on the past ten years of building marketplace software at Sharetribe. On January 30th, 2024, Sharetribe launched its best marketplace builder today on Product Hunt. We were featured as #2 Product of the Day! Thank you so much for your support! With the new Sharetribe, you can launch a marketplace in a day, without coding. You can also extend it infinitely with code. And scale to any size. Create a...

In this final episode, Sjoerd looks back at season 2. He highlights the top takeaways that any early-stage marketplace entrepreneur can use, and backs them up with outtakes from the interviews. Besides a recap, you can use this episode as a quick guide to discover the episodes you have yet to listen to or rediscover your favorites. We hope you enjoyed this season!  If you have any feedback about the podcast, email sjoerd at [email protected].

In this episode, Sjoerd interviews Gene Miguel, CEO and co-founder of Shortboxed, a marketplace for buying and selling comic books.

Trisha Bantigue is the CEO and co-founder of Queenly, a marketplace for formal dresses. Queenly is backed by prestigious investors such as YCombinator and Andreessen Horowitz. But her story starts in the Philippines, where she was raised by her grandparents.

Gaurav Singhal, co-founder at Drive lah, a peer-to-peer car rental platform in Singapore and Australia, shares his lessons on: speed vs quality, customer experience vs technology solution, and how they turned Covid from a blocker into a tailwind.

In this episode, we learn how Curtsy was able to reach success despite second hand apparel being a crowded space with many established players. David Oates, CEO & Co-founder shares Curtsy journey from the humble beginnings to the powerhouse it is now.

Jason Bergman thinks most marketplace founders underestimate the power of sales. Jason is a big sports fan and has always loved working in sales. Before founding MarketPryce, he ran his own sports agency where he tried acquiring customers by sending Instagram messages to almost three thousand professional athletes. The success rate of the Instagram tactic was pretty terrible. But the experience paid off big time when Jason co-founded MarketPryce, a platform for athletes to find marketing...

Andrew Gazdecki loves building businesses. He was the weird kid in high school with an eBay store. He built and sold a job board in college. He used the proceeds to start another company, still in college, which he sold before the turned 30. Andrew’s latest venture is MicroAcquire, a marketplace for buying and selling online businesses. The platform boasts a community of more than 150,000 entrepreneurs and raised $6.3m in funding last year. In the latest episode of Two-Sided, Andrew talks...

In this episode, I talk with Dirk Fehse, founder and CEO of PaulCamper, about how he turned his love of the RV life into Europe’s leading marketplace for RV rentals. It’s a wonderful story, driven by passion, and started out really lean, as you will hear.

In business school, Emmanuel Nataf and his friends started a marketplace and found success in an industry they knew nothing about: self-publishing. In this episode, I speak with Emmanuel about how their journey, how they built a community to support their business, and more!

In this episode, I talk with James Younger of TempStars, a marketplace for temporary dental hygienists and assistants. Not only does James know the problem he's solving extremely well, but he also made a point to know as much as he could about design, web development, and digital marketing after the first version of Tempstars turned out disastrous.

In this episode, I speak to James McAulay, CEO & co-founder of Encore, a marketplace for booking musicians. We talk about how James combined his love for music and computer science into Encore.

We kick off the season with a deep-dive with Casey Winters, one of the most knowledgable and experienced two-sided platform people out there. Casey started at Apartments.com, helped Grubhub to IPO.ready, grew Pinterest to an enormous scale, and is now Chief Product Officer at Eventbrite.

It is coming. Finally. Two-Sided Season 2.

In this episode we look back at season 1. I distill five interesting takeaways that any early-stage marketplace entrepreneur can use, and I have picked out the most relevant outtakes from this season’s interviews.

Bryan Clayton, co-founder and CEO of Greenpal, tells the story behind Greenpal, the marketplace for lawn care, and how he transformed himself from a blue-collar entrepreneur into a tech entrepreneur.

Charles Adler, co-founder of Kickstarter, shares how Kickstarter began and how they grew organically while maintaining the quality and the vibe.

Jacob Wedderburn-Day tells Sjoerd about building Stasher fresh out of university and dealing with the pandemic in a travel industry marketplace.

Ryan Gills shares how Communo got started, why he thinks Fiverr & UpWork are in a race to the bottom, why they built a community that is about giving before receiving and how Communo is building for the future generations.

Kevin Lustig recounts how Scientist.com got started 14 years ago, the ups and downs on the way and how they ended up building an enterprise gateway marketplace serving the biggest enterprises in the pharmaceutical industry.

Sophie Adelman (Whitehat/Hired) shares her experience in building talent marketplaces, and her thoughts on the future of work.

Michael DeGiorgio, founder and CEO of Crexi, joins us for this episode. CREXI is a marketplace for commercial real estate, which, as Michael explains, was an industry ripe for some serious disruption. We talk about how to build productivity tools for one side of your marketplace, how to continuously overdeliver on value, and also about how instead of getting rid of the “middleman”, which is something that you often see when marketplaces enter a space, Crexi actually embraced the middleman. A...

Before starting Florence, Charles Armitage was a doctor and training to go into emergency medicine. He then decided to radically change his career to start a marketplace for independent nurses and elderly care. Charles tells us all about that, shows us the importance of talking to your customers before building a huge product, (spoiler: their first version failed hard), and how to build relationships and trust in such a delicate market.

We talk to Ruthie Amaru, CEO of Freightos, the world's biggest marketplace for freight. We’ll talk about how to serve fragmented markets, with complex workflows and middleman. We talk about how to get supply onboard before having demand, about building for trust and loads of other great things, especially for B2B marketplaces.