Marketplace products take a lot of time and care to tweak before they can really be profitable. It&#x27;s (relatively) easy to become profitable if you&#x27;re bucking legal boundaries like Uber is, but Fiverr doesn&#x27;t have any of those advantages.<p>The company providing the marketplace has to add enough value to both sides of the market to justify its existence as opposed to potential customers just using traditional methods of finding each other.<p>So they have to burn capital to learn those lessons. Trying out models takes time, and time is expensive. They were able to get a bunch of users using their brilliant pitch, but they weren&#x27;t able to make it profitable. It doesn&#x27;t make sense to give up on the company yet, as they still have a huge user base that they can test out new product strategies on.<p>The investors are betting $60M that they&#x27;ll be able to find their way. I see no reason to get cynical about it.