Take Rate is a weekly-ish newsletter by Colin Gardiner for marketplace founders, operators and investors, covering marketplace business models, startup fundraising and category trends. Issues mix original analysis (such as earnings breakdowns for Upwork and arguments about where new marketplace categories are emerging) with curated news and sponsor offers.
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A data-driven newsletter by Platform Aeronaut analysing travel, delivery, marketplace and enterprise software economics, including unit economics, robotaxi fleet growth, stock dilution and how agentic AI may shift distribution and advertising moats. Readers get quantified, opinionated deep dives with links to an accompanying dilution tracker.
Long-form essays on startup strategy, marketplaces, competitive moats and career growth, written by a former Chief Strategy Officer of Faire. Readers get structured frameworks and first-hand operating lessons applied to current topics like AI agents and AI startup valuations.
Weekly-style essays from a fractional product and growth executive on marketplace business models, product OKRs and AI-era product management. Each piece draws on first-hand operating experience, such as TripAdvisor and BetterLesson, to explain a concept and show how it plays out in practice.
Joseph Fernandez's newsletter offers short, personal takes on how technology is reshaping industries such as digital modelling, fitness and marketplace business models. Each issue pairs a brief argument with observations drawn from his own work and from venture-capital analysis.
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