Recap From Our Marketplace Chat In Los Angeles

Recap From Our Marketplace Chat In Los Angeles

Blog Post
October 18, 2025


The Everything Marketplaces community has scaled to 2,700+ marketplace founders, teams, & leaders. With the growth of the community, we've been focused on creating stronger connections with our members through local meetups & events. We're also seeing a transformational shift with AI, so we're doing more events focused on it to help drive forward the future of marketplaces with AI.

We recently had a fireside chat on AI-powered marketplaces with David Kalt (CEO of PangoBooks, prev. Reverb), Grant Singleton (prev. PangoBooks), and Andrew Blachman (Marketplace Capital) on AI-powered marketplaces for LA Tech Week. We also had a casual meetup for founders & teams following. We shared a recap post with 50+ pictures in the community that you can see here and we wanted to share more about it on our blog to help highlight some of our community members.

Here's a few pictures from the event:

A big thanks to our guest speakers David Kalt, Grant Singleton, and Andrew Blachman. Also, a huge thanks to our event sponsor Avalara for making it possible and always supporting marketplaces in the community.

You can also connect with founders in cities like Los Angeles, New York City, London, & more in our meetups spaces that we have in the community. You can find all of our upcoming meetups on our community calendar.

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