Recording of the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #201 (11/11) with Anthemos Georgiades, who's the CEO of Zumper. Zumper is a leading rental marketplace that's making the process of renting an apartment or home easier. Zumper has raised $180M+ in capital from top investors like Kleiner Perkins and a16z.

‍0:05 Intro
‍1:11 Anthemos's background
‍2:22 Starting & scaling Zumper
‍4:54 How Zumper is leveraging AI
‍6:20 Learnings from launching ZumperGPT
‍9:04 How Zumper launched an AI-powered search assistant
‍11:14 How AI is impacting monetization for Zumper
‍13:57 How consumer chat experiences are impacting marketplaces
‍17:05 How Zumper is leveraging AEO
‍20:57 Conversion with traffic from SEO vs. AEO
‍22:17 How AI is impacting the Zumper team & org structure
‍26:33 Engineering challenges when launching AI-powered products
‍28:04 Tips for founders building AI-powered marketplaces
‍31:26 Group Q&A on early distribution bets
‍33:30 Group Q&A on AEO conversion
‍36:02 Group Q&A on agentic marketplace experiences
‍39:05 Group Q&A on supply-led marketplace strategies
‍41:14 Group Q&A on selling AI-powered products to businesses
‍43:21 Parting marketplace advice
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Anthemos on Twitter/X: https://www.x.com/anthemos
Anthemos on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthemos-georgiades-67933722
Zumper: https://www.zumper.com
Mike (Yoroomie) on Twitter/X: https://www.x.com/yoroomie
Mike (Yoroomie) on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yoroomie
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You can also find this group chat in audio format as an episode on our Everything Marketplaces podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also connect with marketplace founders & leaders from our group chats in the Everything Marketplaces community.