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Benjamin Lauzier

Ben was at Lyft for over 6 years where he was employee number 30 and led product and growth for the driver's side

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Leadership4 steps

Guardrails Before Control

Set the quality bar, coach to it, then buy control only for the gaps that remain.

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Entrepreneurship4 steps

Hardest-Side-First (One-Player Mode)

Pre-PMF, ignore marketplace dynamics: own the hardest side and hack the other one.

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Strategy4 steps

Manufacture Your Own Supply

Find the asset blocking non-suppliers from supplying, then rent it to them with strings attached.

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Innovation4 steps

Rank, Don't Filter

Every user-facing filter silently carves out your supply — turn preferences into ranking signals.

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Strategy5 steps

The Market Health Metric

Find the leading proxy that predicts liquidity, then find the threshold where it plateaus.

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Marketing6 steps

The Peer Supply Engine

Pay your best suppliers to onboard and recruit the next ones, at a tenth of the cost.

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Entrepreneurship4 steps

The Three-Signal Marketplace Screen

Fragmentation, uniform needs, high matchmaking barrier — no marketplace works without all three.

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Strategy3 steps

Two Product-Market Fits

A marketplace must pass the disappointment test independently on each side.

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