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This blog post helps highlight a few deep dives into marketplaces with female marketplace founders & leaders. We recommend referencing these past group chats, recap posts in the community, and following these female founders & leaders.
Sara Mauskopf is the Co-founder & CEO of Winnie, which is a marketplace that makes it easy for parents to discover trusted childcare providers nearby. Sara joined us for a group chat where she shared some of her key learnings from Postmates, the founding story for Winnie, what the first steps were that they took to start it as an app for parents to discover activities for kids nearby, what led to their pivot into childcare, we did a deep dive into it as a leading childcare marketplace today, got to learn more about their recent growth, and we also had a great group Q&A.
Note that you can also see a recap post with the recording, notes, & highlight clips from our group chat with Sara here.
Full episode: YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify
Ania Smith is the CEO of Taskrabbit, which is one of the largest local services marketplaces for hiring help with home tasks. Ania joined us for a group chat where got to learn more about her previous experience at Airbnb and Uber, some of her key learnings, what led her to joining Taskrabbit as the CEO, we did a deep dive into it as a local services marketplace for hiring help with home tasks, got to learn more about how it’s evolved, their recent growth, Ania shared tips for early stage founders, and we also had a great group Q&A.
Note that you can also see a recap post with the recording, notes, & highlight clips from our group chat with Ania here.
Full episode: YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify
Joanna McFarland is the Co-founder & CEO of HopSkipDrive, which is a leading transportation service & marketplace for kids. Joanna joined us for a follow-up group chat where we started off with a quick refresher on the founding story & first steps for starting HopSkipDrive, some of the early challenges, we did a deep dive into it as a leading transportation marketplace for kids today, got to learn more about how it’s evolved, their recent growth, Joanna shared some of her fundraising learnings after raising $100M+ from top investors, and we also had a great group Q&A.
Note that you can also see a recap post with the recording, notes, & highlight clips from our group chat with Joanna here.
Full episode: YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify
Iman Abuzeid is the Co-founder & CEO of Incredible Health, which is a leading hiring & career marketplace for healthcare workers. Iman joined us for a group chat where got to learn more about the founding story for Incredible Health, the first steps that they took to start it, did a deep dive into it as a leading hiring marketplace, got to learn more about their recent growth, how they're raised nearly $100M+ from top investors like NFX & a16z, Iman shared specific learnings from building in healthcare, and we also had a great group Q&A.
Note that you can also see a recap post with the recording, notes, & highlight clips from our group chat with Iman here.
Full episode: YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify
Olivia Moore is a Partner at a16z, which is a leading venture fund. Olivia joined us for a follow-up group chat where we started off with a quick overview of a16z as a leading venture fund, what they look for in marketplaces that they invest in, discussed topics like the current fundraising environment, how AI is impacting marketplaces, covered examples of how marketplaces are currently leveraging AI, specific opportunities for marketplaces to do so, and we also had a great group Q&A.
Note that you can also see a recap post with the recording, notes, & highlight clips from our group chat with Olivia here.
Full episode: YouTube
These founders & leaders have been incredibly generous in contributing their time to share more about their experience, insights, and learnings with the Everything Marketplaces community. We'd like to mention a huge thanks to them for doing so and also actively supporting our female founders group in the community. Hopefully the deep dives are helpful and we also suggest connecting with these founders & leaders here in the community!
Want to connect with other female marketplace founders & leaders? You can see our Female founders space in the community also join the discussion where this was posted in the community here.
