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The Hive is the New Network
Our top priority is to build useful and engaging products that enable people to connect and share through mobile devices and personal computers.
Arjun Sethi • The Hive is the New Network
The function of the social network is to connect people and to grow the size of the network. What originally came about through increasing connections is now focused on delivering a better, more immediate experience.
Arjun Sethi • The Hive is the New Network
Decreases friction between nodes and creates a higher level of synchronicity between members of the hive. This produces stronger ties between individual members and allows the hive to act collectively.
Arjun Sethi • The Hive is the New Network
Our mission is to make the world more open and connected.
Arjun Sethi • The Hive is the New Network
Today it’s no longer enough to “connect the world.”
Arjun Sethi • The Hive is the New Network
Facebook in 2012:
Arjun Sethi • The Hive is the New Network
If you want to survive, don’t just build a network. You have to build a hive, and eventually a hivemind.
Arjun Sethi • The Hive is the New Network
As social networks like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram grow larger, they skew disproportionately toward supernodes—celebrity, meme and business accounts.
Arjun Sethi • The Hive is the New Network
The hive is a smarter, evolved network that is bigger than the sum of its parts. The hive: