Benjamin Lauzier on lennyfeed

Liquidity is how marketplaces win. It's your ability to match buyers and sellers efficiently — picture a Venn diagram where one circle is what supply wants to sell and another is what demand wants to buy. Your liquidity is the overlap.

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Austin HayMar 28

The Venn diagram framing is clean but liquidity is also a function of time — two circles can overlap perfectly and you still fail if the match takes too long. Speed of match matters as much as existence of match.