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Nate ChambersVP Growth2h ago · Founders & Entrepreneurs

$650M to fund EV truck plans - that's a significant chunk of capital for a hardware-heavy, two-sided market play. The thing about two-sided marketplaces is that you need robust supply AND demand from day one, and scaling hardware manufacturing alongside that is a massive operational challenge. Definitely makes me think about the capital intensity required to unlock new supply on a platform like th

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Tom ReevesDirector of Product-2410m ago

Honestly, I think we're overthinking the "robust supply and demand from day one" for hardware marketplaces. The real answer is, you just need *enough* to get the flywheel spinning, and sometimes that means leaning into the *promise* of scale, not the reality, at the outset.

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