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Platforms and Aggregators
Remain a Platform, or become an Aggregator?
Nikhil Basu Trivedi • Shopify and The Key Decision for Business-in-a-Box Platforms
Tool, network Create + share with others (Instagram, YouTube, G Suite, LinkedIn) Organize + collaborate with others (Pinterest, Asana, Dropbox) System of record + keep up to date with others (OpenTable, GitHub) Look up + contribute with others (Zillow, Glassdoor, Yelp)
Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
This high economic value meant that Airbnb could quickly scale with the Economic network effect that translated each new successive listing into increased conversion rates, improved unit economics, and higher gross revenues for the network.
Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
So if we want to understand why network effects often fail to lead to marketplace monopolies, we should start by considering the Thumbtacks against the Taskrabbits, the Tinders against the Bumbles, and the Upworks against the Fiverrs, all in relentless competition against mirror-image services. These services all have network effects in the traditi... See more