While Nextdoor positions itself as more of a private social network, it has hinted at a marketplace business opportunity.
Prefer, a marketplace to connect people to service providers, i.e. hairstylists, dog walkers, etc., disclosed funding from legendary VC firm Benchmark Capital yesterday.
Interestingly, it looks like Benchmark already has a horse in the local marketplace race in the form of unicorn, Nextdoor (valuation $1.1B).
While Nextdoor positions itself as more of a private social network, it has hinted at a marketplace business opportunity, as CEO Nirav Tolia did recently in a comment at the Recode Decode tech conference:
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