Web Proofs & Marketplaces

Before joining crypto full time, I spent a good number of years investing in consumer internet companies in the US and APAC. For all intensive purposes, this meant marketplaces.

From 2010 – 2021, there was arguably no better risk-reward on planet earth than as a series C+ growth equity investor in marketplaces. The game was rigged to make money.

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By then, all institutional investors were familiar with aggregation theory and the power law returns to leading marketplaces. The large pools of capital would simply bide their time until a breakout winner emerged in a large category – OTAs, eCommerce, Ride-Hailing, Food Delivery, Travel – and then pile in behind the market leader, rocketing them towards es

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