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the strong form single platform network effects that that Facebook has, that LinkedIn has, that Snapchat has. And then there's the two sided network effect that marketplaces have of which we spent a lot of lot of time on this show between Amazon and,
Right? And also, it's barriered. And then that's a much, much narrower set of things. So do you wanna add something? I'm hesitating to direct David and Ben into our, whole debate. But I think the short version of things here is network effects descri
Yep. And then you get into to things on the other side of the spectrum that have no utility and are pure network effects like the telephone. I mean, if you have a communication network, the only purpose of it is to talk to other people on the network
...So this is sort of the scope we're going after. If we come up with a framework to understand platforms, they should work as well for, you know, Uber or Airbnb of today as they should work for the matchmakers three thousand years ago. And so in that e
despite not having the operating system. Yeah. Listeners, write in if you can think of one, a successful, scaled, durable platform where the platform is able to make money, and they're able to make a lot of money for developers, for people on the pla
And I lived the full cycle in a very short period. I lived the the glory days and the whole just the absolute horror days and the and it was very painful. But this is exactly what happened. So let's go through the four steps. So step zero. Facebook w
Right? I think those are really nice user experiences, you know, and I have to type in my credit card again. Now there's kind of a network. Right? Shopify originally was just kind of a tool for That's right. Sellers online. A merchant to get online.
and they tend to be the folks like Slack and and, like, all of the big winners. It's there it's just, like, so elusive. And the smile curve, just to just so people haven't done it, that is essentially retention goes up over time. It goes down a littl
That's a great question. So, like, I wrote a blog post years ago called Come for the Tools, Stay for the Network. And the idea was what I observed as sort of a tactical pattern among entrepreneurs. I cited Instagram as an example so young people won'
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