25: Rob Mihalko - The Digital Marketplace Playbook

This week on Irregardless, we’re joined by Rob Mihalko, founder and principal of Spectus Strategy and a trusted expert in digital marketplaces.
Rob shares hard-earned lessons from years helping marketplace businesses grow and scale. From his early days at Ariba to sharing his expertise with the next generation of marketplace leaders. We get into what actually drives sustainable marketplace growth, how strategy shifts over time, and what most teams get wrong when trying to scale.
He also gives us a peek into his work as an educator at Stanford, where he teaches the next wave of innovators building platforms and marketplaces.
Whether you’re in the trenches of a startup or advising one, Rob’s insights will change how you think about growth.