Brian Crombie Radio Hour - Epi 941 - How Online Marketplaces are Creating Modern Monopolies with Shirish Nadkarni

Brian speaks with Shirish Nadkarni. Shirish is a serial entrepreneur creating multiple consumer businesses. He was the co-founder of Livemocha, the world’s largest language learning site, and TeamOn Systems, a mobile wireless email pioneer that was acquired by BlackBerry. Shirish started at Microsoft where he engineered the acquisition of Hotmail and launch<a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2FMSN.com%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR15vYdEYEyxBE4Lj_oqkO0Ar-Uq5DUzX2GW0JvI_EcCilQ3fv5sHjfAY5g&amp;h=AT0eSTxoXq9ggGY4WfBXpqsk4mW07ENjTmCWiPM_OmMBa3gzVvnLgl4UhxD5nPvlGjE_bm3TPQrEeiTKy7TrGvtNRl7q_AV2F6rS-PyMMmE8byHvY7A-ZRFmEATKMaJRbQ&amp;__tn__=-UK-R&amp;c%5B0%5D=AT1XnVz3HGC0F2Dj0g2e7BvYG4KjVDxJ68n9oqv5fzW-JKFZB586ORJIVJFH8tXwZfPyRJR0OrP6BgzNsojlI_Gi_yU53jK2vBcgu8he9cWu5wHAZ3q19-akHK5zW_qywdS9ULRrdG4AzWLDHb-DfdLVzDQ3ouzbsRwfFNHRfXE_OW2LzjLJ4c9goXg--mdiQQw4cMOJ1-hHr6fyHOy_C43Q" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">ed MSN.c</a>om. He serves on the board of TiE Seattle, where he chairs a number of programs, including the GoVertical Startup Creation Workshop, the TiE Entrepreneur Institute, and the Z5 Catalyst funding initiative. He talks about his book “WINNER TAKES ALL - Case Studies in How Online Marketplaces Are Creating Modern Monopolies”.