#2506 - Q&A: “Does Peak Marketplace mean we’ve reached a saturation point?”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
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🗓️ 11 November 2023
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Have we hit 'Peak Marketplace,' a point where the online world is too crowded for new entrepreneurs? This caller brings up an alternative perspective to a point I made in Gonzo Capitalism.
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| 0:00.0 | In the recent book Ganso Capitalism, I wrote about the concept of Peak Marketplace. |
| 0:16.0 | That was actually one of my starting points for the research of the book, |
| 0:20.0 | the idea of everything being for sale, every talent, every skill, every set of knowledge, every data set, |
| 0:28.0 | everything can be monetized in a product or a service. |
| 0:31.0 | And I also wrote about what's different now |
| 0:33.0 | compared to a few years ago, or certainly |
| 0:35.8 | compared to 10 years ago. |
| 0:37.4 | So lots of people have been talking about this concept |
| 0:39.5 | in various ways. |
| 0:40.9 | Today we've got a listener question about it. The caller is approaching the concept from a different angle than I intended, which I think is interesting. |
| 0:48.0 | I love the whole back and forth and interactive element with my readers and my listeners. |
| 0:55.2 | Thank you for being at least one of those. |
| 0:57.4 | So let's hear her out. |
| 0:58.6 | Does Peak Marketplace mean we've actually reached a saturation point, |
| 1:02.6 | have we hit Peak Marketplace, a point |
| 1:04.3 | where the online world is too crowded for new entrepreneurs. |
| 1:07.3 | Let's consider this alternative perspective |
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