>And you plainly don't have two businesses I read his comment as meaning WRT the work required to market to and acquire the two distinct customer constituents

>And you plainly don't have two businesses I read his comment as meaning WRT the work required to market to and acquire the two distinct customer constituents (buyers and sellers). It's not two full businesses, but I think he has a point in that context. Actually, it's even harder than that: there's the whole chicken-and-egg thing that adds an additional timing factor to the customer acquisition effort.