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The Platform Economy with Fexingo: Marketplaces, Networks, and Multi-Sided Businesses
Lucas and Luna explore the architecture of multi-sided platforms—the marketplaces, networks, and digital ecosystems that reshape industries. Each episode dissects a single platform business, from its fee structures and network effects to the competitive moats and regulatory pressures that define its trajectory. Lucas brings the numbers: take rates, liquidity ratios, contribution margins. Luna pushes on the human and strategic trade-offs: why a marketplace chooses to subsidize one side, how a network solves the cold-start problem, when a platform risks tipping into a monopoly. They draw on real...
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Episodes
How Network Effects Protect Marketplace Incumbents 22.05.2026 9:54
Episode 5 of The Platform Economy. Lucas and Luna examine the long-running taxi vs. ride-hailing debate in Chicago to understand how marketplaces defend their lead once they achieve network density. By tracing Medallion prices from the 1990s through Uber's entry, they unpack why new entrants rarely topple an incumbent marketplace that has solved liquidity — even when regulators try to intervene. T...
How Shopify Built an Ecosystem Around Every Merchant 22.05.2026 8:48
In this episode of The Platform Economy, Lucas and Luna explore how Shopify evolved from a simple online store builder into a platform ecosystem that powers over two million merchants. They unpack the concept of 'platform envelopment' — how Shopify expanded by offering payments, shipping, capital, and an app marketplace that lock in merchants and developers alike. Specific numbers: Shopify's payme...
How Etsy Built a Community-Powered Marketplace 21.05.2026 8:41
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how Etsy built a thriving marketplace by prioritizing community over growth-at-all-costs. They examine Etsy's unique approach to seller governance, including its seller advisory board and the 2019 restructuring that created the 'Etsy.com' and 'Reverb' business units. The conversation digs into the tradeoffs between community alignment and scale, using Etsy's...
How Airbnb Solved the Trust Problem in Marketplaces 21.05.2026 8:46
In this episode of The Platform Economy with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dive into one of the hardest challenges for any multi-sided marketplace: trust between strangers. Using Airbnb as the central case, they explore the specific mechanisms the company built to solve the 'lemon problem' in peer-to-peer accommodation. Lucas breaks down how Airbnb's 2011 'Verified ID' rollout, its two-way review system...
How Uber Mastered Marketplace Liquidity 19.05.2026 7:33
In the first episode of The Platform Economy, Lucas and Luna dissect the single most important concept in marketplace businesses: liquidity. Using Uber as the central case, they explain why having 1,000 drivers and 500 riders in a city means nothing if they can't find each other quickly. Lucas walks through the cold-start problem that killed dozens of ride-hailing apps before Uber solved it with a...
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