In this episode of Bulletproof Your Marketplace, Jeremy dives into the critical topic of marketplace taxation with Nick Furtwengler, senior tax manager at Miller Cooper. Nick brings over 14 years of experience in state and local tax law and has worked extensively with digital marketplaces.
Listeners will gain insights into why tax compliance is essential for marketplaces of all sizes, including the risks of noncompliance, economic nexus rules, and how states leverage marketplaces to enforce tax collection. Nick highlights practical strategies for founders and leadership teams, such as tracking sales by state, understanding workforce and inventory obligations, and avoiding common pitfalls like misclassifying employees or contractors.
The episode also explores accessible tools and software that help startups and growing marketplaces automate sales tax collection and reporting.
Whether you’re a founder, operator, or legal counsel, this episode provides actionable guidance to help make your marketplace safer, stronger, and more sustainable.
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In this episode of Bulletproof Your Marketplace, Jeremy dives into the critical topic of marketplace taxation with Nick Furtwengler, senior tax manager at Miller Cooper. Nick brings over 14 years of experience in state and local tax law and has worked extensively with digital marketplaces.
Listeners will gain insights into why tax compliance is essential for marketplaces of all sizes, including the risks of noncompliance, economic nexus rules, and how states leverage marketplaces to enforce tax collection. Nick highlights practical strategies for founders and leadership teams, such as tracking sales by state, understanding workforce and inventory obligations, and avoiding common pitfalls like misclassifying employees or contractors.
The episode also explores accessible tools and software that help startups and growing marketplaces automate sales tax collection and reporting.
Whether you’re a founder, operator, or legal counsel, this episode provides actionable guidance to help make your marketplace safer, stronger, and more sustainable.
Trust and Safety — Creating Your Own Best Practices
Marketplace Risk Platform Podcast
21 minutes 22 seconds
2 months ago
Trust and Safety — Creating Your Own Best Practices
In this episode of Bulletproof Your Marketplace Podcast, host Jeremy Gottschalk welcomes Jeff Sakasegawa, Trust and Safety Architect at Persona, who draws on over 15 years of experience for a deep dive into the chapter Creating Your Own Best Practices.
The conversation explores why identity verification is foundational, why words and transparency matter in policy-making, and how strategic friction can strengthen—rather than hinder—user trust.
Jeff highlights real-world examples and emphasizes the importance of cross-functional ownership in trust and safety programs. He also shares how platforms can develop strategies tailored to their unique business models instead of relying on one-size-fits-all policies.
For founders and leadership teams, this episode delivers clear takeaways. Jeff leaves listeners with one actionable practice—link analysis—as a powerful tool to strengthen enforcement, connect signals across accounts, and outpace bad actors.
Marketplace Risk Platform Podcast
In this episode of Bulletproof Your Marketplace, Jeremy dives into the critical topic of marketplace taxation with Nick Furtwengler, senior tax manager at Miller Cooper. Nick brings over 14 years of experience in state and local tax law and has worked extensively with digital marketplaces.
Listeners will gain insights into why tax compliance is essential for marketplaces of all sizes, including the risks of noncompliance, economic nexus rules, and how states leverage marketplaces to enforce tax collection. Nick highlights practical strategies for founders and leadership teams, such as tracking sales by state, understanding workforce and inventory obligations, and avoiding common pitfalls like misclassifying employees or contractors.
The episode also explores accessible tools and software that help startups and growing marketplaces automate sales tax collection and reporting.
Whether you’re a founder, operator, or legal counsel, this episode provides actionable guidance to help make your marketplace safer, stronger, and more sustainable.
