Marketplaces & Scalability: Lessons from Uber & Airbnb

Uber and Airbnb are two of the most iconic companies from the last decade. Both companies created entirely new markets via a marketplace model and were originally considered to be part of the same “sharing economy”. Since then, their paths have diverged. While they were both wildly successful, Uber (and Lyft) required far more funding to create value than Airbnb did.