Community Takes All: The Power of Social+

If a company can transition from simply delivering a product to building a community, it can unlock extraordinary competitive advantages and both create and support a superior business model.

Among digital natives, everything is social. We see a steady march toward more social products. Examples from the Daybreak portfolio, across a range of sectors:

• Investing: AfterHour, which offers a social hub for trading and financial learning


• Dating: Amori, which takes single-player dating and makes it collaborative and social with LLM-powered ma

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Social capital, on the other hand, is harder to define and relies on the creation of a “successful status game.”

The rules of building a social product are changing. It’s important to understand this shift to build social products that can effectively gain traction on the internet today.The connection-first model is no longer as effective as it used to be. As the social web grows, and a larger number of social products compete for our attention, we are seeing... See more