/ About this event
Digital marketplaces have quietly rewired how commerce gets done. What started as a way to hail a ride or rent a spare room has become an entire economy unto itself: millions of people now make real money on their own terms, and a new generation of marketplaces is racing to unlock the next niche and further build the Marketplace Economy.
But the ground is shifting fast. For example, AI is either the best thing to happen to marketplaces or the thing that quietly breaks them, by supercharging matching, trust, and liquidity on one hand, and flooding them with fake supply, gamed reviews, and low-quality noise on the other.
The founders who get this right will win the decade. The ones who don't may not notice until it's too late.
Join us for a candid conversation with thought leaders and founders building the next generation of marketplaces. We'll dig into the questions everyone's talking about: - Can trust survive automation? - If AI is picking for buyers, how do sellers still get found? - Where's the next big marketplace hiding?
Whether you're a founder building in the space, an investor tracking where the next category emerges, or an operator figuring out how AI reshapes your model, you'll leave with a sharper read on where marketplaces go from here.
Panel + networking to follow. Speaker 1: TBC Speaker 2: TBC
Presented by Spectus Ventures, A Silicon Valley-based marketplace investor — and Dots, an end-to-end payouts platform that serves the marketplace community.
This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
