GoFundMe CPTO on Building Marketplaces Across StubHub, TheRealReal & GoFundMe | Arnie Katz | E294

About this episode

Arnie Katz discusses his experience building and scaling marketplaces at GoFundMe, StubHub, and TheRealReal.

GoFundMe has facilitated over $40 billion in help since 2010, powering a community of more than 200 million people across 20 countries. Arnie Katz is the Chief Product and Technology Officer there — and a three-time CPTO, having previously led product and engineering at StubHub and TheRealReal. In this episode, he brings the rare perspective of someone who has built and scaled marketplaces at every stage, across multiple industries. What you'll learn: The three failure modes every marketplac...

People in this episode

Guest: Arnie Katz

Topics covered

• marketplaces
• product management
• technology
• business strategy
• scaling businesses

Keywords

• GoFundMe
• marketplaces
• Arnie Katz
• StubHub
• TheRealReal
• product technology
• business growth

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: GoFundMe, StubHub, TheRealReal

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