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How Do You Monetize a Free Platform? This Founder Reveals the Secret
Free for sponsors, free for LPs, and still a business. Aleksey Chernobelskiy lays out the revenue model behind GP LP Match and why charging either side of the marketplace up front would have broken the matching itself.
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Building GP LP Match: A Marketplace Connecting Real Estate Sponsors and Investors — Aleksey Chernobelskiy
Then as we got two software engineers on board, we also created a solid data solution where we take all the deal data on the platform, anonymize it, and help GPs understand how they compare to market.Listen to the full episode with Aleksey Chernobelskiy
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