Nimbus Health: Plenty of Demand, Nothing to Buy

Product Management
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Scenario

Nimbus Health runs a digital health marketplace in US, live in 11 cities.

Last month: 303,355 active buyers, 15,668 active sellers, 645,360 searches, and an overall fill rate of 70%.

That average conceals a wide spread. The three largest cities fill at about 80%. The bottom half of cities fill at around 27%.

Growth marketing has been buying buyer-side installs, because buyer acquisition is cheaper and the install numbers look good in the board deck. Supply acquisition is manual and slow.

Supporting data

scale

searches
645360
active buyers
303355
active sellers
15668
buyer to seller ratio
19.4

liquidity

cities live
11
overall fill rate pct
70
top 3 cities fill pct
80
bottom half cities fill pct
27

acquisition

buyer side
paid, scaling
seller side
manual, flat
Your task

Advise the general manager. Your answer should provide:

  1. Analysis — which side is constrained, where, and what the fill rate really says.
  2. Risks — what happens if you keep acquiring on the current side.
  3. Recommendation — which side, which cities, which mechanism, and the metric that proves it.

State any assumptions you make.

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How you'll be graded

80 points, 60% to pass.

  • recommendation15
  • market analysis25
  • risk assessment20
  • financial analysis20
Hint
Reveal suggested structure

Liquidity is local. Find the constrained side per geography, stop acquiring on the long side, and concentrate supply until density crosses the threshold.