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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 cases—Uber's surge pricing, Airbnb's host guarantee, Etsy's niche positioning—to ground every abstraction in a named company and a measurable outcome. This show is for operators, investors, and strategists who need to understand why some platforms win while others vanish. No hot takes, no hype—just the mechanics of matching supply with demand at scale. What happens when the marketplace becomes th
Fexingo hosts The Platform Economy with Fexingo: Marketplaces, Networks, and Multi-Sided Businesses, a business show with 105 episodes published.
Lucas and Luna explore why major marketplaces like Amazon, TikTok Shop, and Shopify are investing in live shopping experiences. This episode centers on Amazon Live's recent push into shoppable video, with specific number
Marketplaces like Amazon and Shopify are increasingly offering supply chain financing to their sellers — from inventory advances to invoice factoring. Lucas and Luna explore how Amazon's Lending program has disbursed ove
Episode 130 of The Platform Economy: Lucas and Luna explore why major marketplace platforms are moving beyond cloud providers to build their own data centers. The hosts examine how Uber's migration to private infrastruct
Episode 129 of The Platform Economy examines a surprising new frontier: major marketplaces building their own healthcare infrastructure. Lucas and Luna explore how Uber Health is expanding beyond ride-hailing into telehe
Episode 128 of The Platform Economy: Lucas and Luna explore why major marketplaces like Uber and Airbnb are launching their own loyalty and rewards programs instead of relying on credit card points. They break down the e
Episode 127 of The Platform Economy dives into a surprising trend: major marketplaces like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are bypassing traditional utilities to build their own solar, wind, and even nuclear energy project
Etsy, eBay, and Amazon each lost hundreds of millions last year to lost, damaged, or stolen packages that weren't covered by carrier insurance. Now these platforms are building their own logistics insurance products. Luc
This episode examines why major marketplaces like Uber, Airbnb, and Amazon are replacing third-party messaging with proprietary chat systems. Lucas and Luna break down the specific economics: how in-app messaging reduces
Marketplaces like Uber and Airbnb are moving beyond verifying driver's licenses and passports. They're building their own identity verification systems — layered networks that combine biometrics, behavioral signals, and
Maps are the invisible backbone of platform businesses. Uber spent over 200 million dollars a year on Google Maps before deciding to build its own mapping system in 2015. Airbnb faced a different problem: its thousands o
In episode 122 of The Platform Economy with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore a growing trend: marketplaces like Uber, Fiverr, and Upwork are building their own internal job platforms to match workers with gigs. They dig i
Marketplaces like eBay and Back Market are moving beyond third-party protection plans to build their own warranty and extended coverage programs. In this episode, Lucas and Luna break down why: it's about control, data,
Episode 120 of The Platform Economy with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna explore why major marketplaces like Amazon, Uber, and Airbnb are moving away from third-party review platforms and building custom review systems in-house.
Episode 119 of The Platform Economy digs into the next frontier for marketplaces: ditching off-the-shelf recommendation algorithms to build proprietary AI. Lucas and Luna trace how Etsy, Instacart, and Pinterest are retr
Episode 118 of The Platform Economy digs into the quiet arms race inside online marketplaces: proprietary fraud detection models. Lucas breaks down why Etsy, Airbnb, and Poshmark are moving away from off-the-shelf soluti
Marketplaces from Amazon to Shopify are moving beyond payments and logistics into a new frontier: lending. In this episode, Lucas and Luna unpack why platforms are building their own credit products, how they use transac
Uber's surge pricing has been controversial since day one, but behind the public frustration lies a fascinating machine learning system that predicts supply-demand gaps before they happen. Lucas and Luna dive into the me
Episode 115 of The Platform Economy digs into the surprising move by online marketplaces to launch internal freight brokerage operations. Lucas and Luna examine how companies like Amazon, eBay, and newer players are bypa
Episode 114 of The Platform Economy explores why major marketplaces from food delivery to general merchandise are shifting from relying on third-party carriers to building their own last-mile delivery fleets. Lucas and L
Episode 113 of The Platform Economy explores why leading marketplaces like Airbnb, Uber, and Fiverr are moving away from Stripe and PayPal to build proprietary payment gateways. Lucas and Luna break down the economics of
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