Treating Marketplace Businesses Like They’re Ecosystems with Elias Chavando

The Exit - Presented By Flippa

Technology

5 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Exit, host Steve McGarry sits down with marketplace expert Elias Chavando. The two discuss the intricacies that come with scaling a marketplace and how the strategies used by Elias can be applied to any type of business. Elias is more than qualified to provide wisdom on marketplace businesses, having founded both Progresando.com and Yoover.com. He’s also consulted some of the biggest digital marketplaces in the world as one of the few experts in what is an emerging business type. Elias Chavando is the Founder at Progresando.com and Yoover.com. Both of which are online marketplaces targeting Mexico and the United States respectively. Elias is also currently the Managing Director of a leading sales and strategic business development consulting firm with offices in Los Angeles, Dublin and Mexico City, and offers his consulting services to companies looking to seek guidance from an expert in Marketplaces. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chavando/ Progresando: https://www.progresando.com/ Yoover: https://yoover.com/ X (Twitter) @EChavando: https://twitter.com/EChavando Flippa’s First Access: https://flippa.com/exit For a Free Flippa Business Valuation: flippa.com/freevaluation -- The Exit—Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcast featuring expert entrepreneurs who have been there and done it. The Exit talks to operators who have bought and sold a business. You’ll learn how they did it, why they did it, and get exposure to the world of exits, a world occupied by a small few, but accessible to many. To listen to the podcast or get daily listing updates, click on flippa.com/the-exit-podcast/

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the exit presented by Flip Up the number one platform to buy and sell online businesses
0:05.9	Flipa manages over a billion in deal value annually and combines expert buy and sell side advisory with its market leading valuation tool,
0:14.2	Deal Room, Off Market Offering, Market Insights,
0:17.3	an AI-based deal-by-deal matching engine.
0:20.7	Now for the exit.
0:21.9	The exit is a 30 minute podcast featuring awesome
0:24.4	entrepreneurs who have been there and they have done it. The exit talks to
0:27.6	operators who have bought and sold businesses of all different sizes. You learn
0:31.5	how they did it, why they did it and get
0:33.8	exposure to the world of exits it's a world occupied by a small few but
0:38.2	accessible to many on this episode of the exit I sit down with Elias
0:42.1	Chivando and he is an awesome entrepreneur, current CEO and president of Uver.com and we talk about quite the experience that he had.
0:54.8	I've been waiting for this episode for quite a while
0:57.4	because once upon a time,
0:59.8	back in 2010, he started a company called Reagan.com and if that sounds familiar that is the
1:09.5	president Reagan he became friends with Michael Reagan and he talks through the story of basically
1:18.4	starting up this company that sold emails and it was a rocket ship to the point where they exited at a 20-plus million dollar
1:26.4	valuation and he talks about the just tumultuous experience afterwards.
1:32.8	It was litigation and all the craziness that ensued.
1:36.8	And this is a fantastic episode for anyone listening that's thinking about starting a business
1:42.3	and they're looking for a co-founder.
1:44.8	What is really important to take away from this episode of the exit is to do your research
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