Gokul Rajaram
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1,839 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 16 Mar
Gokul Rajaram’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It was basically allowing anybody to sell.
So it basically changed any entrepreneur on the planet.
Anybody who wants to sell something went.
So it wasn't just existing e-commerce merchants.
And that's what you want platforms to do.
They literally make it possible for every person to think of the possibility of selling or renting their home out or taking a ride, which they never would have thought before, or buying a new presentation app or a note-taking app.
They are the biggest hits.
They're also the biggest misses.
If the bet doesn't play out, they're screwed.
If the bet plays out, they could be bigger than anything else.
Google, many of them are non-consumption markets.
They're new behaviors that didn't exist before.
That's in some ways what venture is all about.
It's not about existing, it's about new behaviors and betting on them.
Facebook, non-consumption market.
I mean, think of all of these iconic companies.
But the biggest difference was identity.
On Friendster and MySpace, you didn't know who the people were.
They didn't have the real photo thing.
I remember when Facebook tried to go into Japan,
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