In this episode of Beyond Core, Matthias Walter and Nathalie LAMBORGHINI DUMAS sit down with Jeremy H. Gottschalk, platform expert, author of "Bulletproof Your Marketplace", and founder of Marketplace Risk. Jeremy shares hard-earned insights on how platforms can navigate trust and safety, as well as emerging risks in an AI-driven world.

Bulletproof Your Marketplace: Strategies for Protecting Your Digital Platform by Jeremy H. Gottschalk is available today on Amazon. The book is published with Forbes Books, the exclusive business book publishing imprint of Forbes.

Online marketplace and digital platform leaders spend incalculable time and energy growing and scaling their businesses. However, as Jeremy Gottschalk has seen too often, many overlook a crucial factor for long-term success—mitigating the risks, liabilities, and legal exposures that could lead to failure.

The Internet has been in use by the general public for decades, and with it have come a wealth of benefits.

The Executive Director of the Marketplace Industry Association submitted a letter advocating for a federal data privacy law, modeled after the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act, to replace the current patchwork of state regulations. Jeremy Gottschalk emphasized that the existing state-by-state approach stifles innovation and creates significant compliance burdens for businesses. The letter called for a national standard that balances consumer protection with the continued growth of the digital economy, while also aligning with international data privacy frameworks.