Consumer, day 3

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Three companies that scale marketplaces with hard numbers and tactics TradeZy starts by slicing the market with bridal gowns uses an SEO-driven growth strategy to scale to 5 million customers and a 100‑person team after Series C. Handy builds local density first then expands to a nationwide network of 100,000 professionals with fixed‑price instant bookings and shifts to profitable unit economics to reach break‑even. ChowNow runs a white‑label platform for 9,000 restaurants processing about $500M and survives an App Store blocking by six months of lobbying and product work.

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1. 0:00Introduction to panel
2. 1:11TradeSee marketplace overview
3. 2:12Handy home services platform
4. 3:17Chow restaurant tech platform
5. 4:42TradeSee early growth strategy
6. 7:31Handy supply aggregation hacks
7. 9:20Handy service category focus
8. 10:23Chow demand generation tactics
9. 12:08Scaling company culture
10. 14:36Surviving competitive pressure
11. 17:08Platform dependency challenges