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THE TWO-SIDED PROBLEM Book 1

By Elspeth Carrick · 4 parts · 14 h 3 min · English

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Brooklyn, San Francisco, Boston and Silicon Valley, 2004 to 2017. Four businesses are started on the same impossible arithmetic: a marketplace is worthless to a buyer until sellers are on it and worthless to a seller until buyers are. Rob Kalin builds Etsy for people who make things by hand. Joe Gebbia rents out air mattresses because the rent is due. Leah Busque runs out of dog food on a February night in Boston. Manish Chandra sees a thrifted yellow dress at a high school game. None of them solves the problem in theory. Each of them cheats it, in a specific and documented way, and this is an account of the cheating and of what it cost. Covers Rob Kalin, Joe Gebbia, Brian Chesky, Leah Busque, Manish Chandra, Etsy, Airbnb, TaskRabbit, and Poshmark.

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  1. Part 01

    3:17:31

  2. Part 02

    3:12:20

  3. Part 03

    3:38:52

  4. Part 04

    3:54:31

Books in this series

  1. THE TWO-SIDED PROBLEM Book 1

    4 parts · 14 h 3 min

  2. THE TWO-SIDED PROBLEM Book 2

    4 parts · 13 h 36 min

  3. THE TWO-SIDED PROBLEM Book 3

    4 parts · 15 h 24 min

  4. THE TWO-SIDED PROBLEM Book 4

    4 parts · 15 h 26 min

  5. THE TWO-SIDED PROBLEM Book 5

    4 parts · 12 h 5 min

  6. THE TWO-SIDED PROBLEM Book 6

    4 parts · 14 h 25 min