Drinking from the Firehose
Alex Taussig, LightspeedA weekly(-ish) newsletter on commerce, media, science, tech, investing, & internet culture by Alex Taussig. I am a partner at Lightspeed in Silicon Valley.
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Firehose #195: 🍲 The kitchen is open. 🍲
Me and Ken Chong, CEO/co-founder of All Day Kitchens, at the company’s Noe Valley/Mission location in SF.
Remember me?
A few months have passed since my last newsletter. Every now and then, I get into a pattern at work that so consumes...
Firehose #194: ⚖️ Operating leverage. ⚖️
One Big Thought
I’ve been spending time lately thinking about how operating leverage functions differently in product- vs. services-oriented marketplaces.
Operating leverage measures the degree to which a company can increase its profit...
Calling in sick. Sorry!
The last year or so have spared me from all manner of the normal colds/flus that afflict a household with two preschool age children. However, this past week our entire household got our first cold since COVID started. The kids are fine now...
Firehose #193: 🦸♂️ Mega Marketplaces 🦸♂️
One Big Thought
Marketplace IPOs are commonplace today, but just 5 years ago they were a rare commodity. To quote myself in Firehose #187:
Of the publicly traded, independent US marketplaces that exist today, only 6 were public compan...
Firehose #192: 🍽 Campo a la mesa. 🍽
One Big Thought
Latin America (LATAM) is the fastest growing e-commerce market in the world. It has 640M residents with $5.8T of GDP (6–7% growth). GDP per capita is $9K, or roughly the same as China. The region has near ubiquitous mobil...
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