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Ramesh Johari
Ramesh is a professor at Stanford University where he researches and teaches data science methods, especially for online marketplace design and operation.
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Innovation4 steps
Fairer Marketplace Rating System Design
Fight rating inflation and averaging bias with renormed labels, priors, blind reviews, and the sound of silence.
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Innovation5 steps
Hypothesis-Driven Experimentation: Learning as a Win
Reframe experiments from winners/losers to hypotheses; run more, run shorter, and carry priors forward.
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Strategy4 steps
Marketplace Whack-a-Mole: Managing Winners and Losers
Most consequential marketplace changes create winners and losers; manage the trade, don't chase a metric.
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Strategy4 steps
Predict vs. Decide: Think in Differentials
Prediction finds correlations; decisions need causal differences. Optimize the lift, not the level.
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Entrepreneurship4 steps
Start Bespoke, Become a Marketplace Later
A marketplace never starts as a marketplace; win with a pre-liquidity value prop first.
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Entrepreneurship4 steps
The Scaled-Liquidity Smell Test
Before calling yourself a marketplace, prove you have scaled liquidity on both sides.
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Resources in their episodes
- Airbnb
- Amazon
- Apple Podcasts
- Bumble
- DoorDash
- eBay
- Eppo
- Four Thousand Weeks
- Free Solo
- Hex
- How to Lie with Statistics
- IKEA
- Lenny's Podcast
- Lyft
- Only Murders in the Building
- OpenAI
- Sanity
- Spotify
- Stanford University
- Stitch Fix
- Stripe
- Substack
- Superhost
- The Alpinist
- The Sound of Silence
- Thumbtack
- Uber
- Upwork
- Venmo
- Yelp
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