Marketplace startups are destined to be massively reinvented by AI. The weak form is already happening, where we use LLMs for customer support, supply/demand matching, etc. That’s easy
The strong form is to figure out how much of the supply side of the marketplace can be turned agentic and ultimately, robotic. “Uber for X” will have consumers requesting robots to do X.
Every on-demand service of the 2010s will instruct a robotaxi or delivery robot. Or if you’re prev used a marketplace to hire X, then you “hire” an agent instead. You won’t need to app developer, because there’s agents to build your app
The next big business model for marketplaces will emerge when demand works at high abstractions and supply meets it by becoming programmable
[Related post: Goodbye marketplaces]
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