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At its core, the Uber playbook for competition worked by relying on the Economic network effect—when it was the larger player in a city, it could subsidize the driver side of its network more efficiently.
Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
Information wants to be free, but it also wants to be expensive. In an ideal ecosystem, audiences would enjoy the universal accessibility of media, and creators would enjoy more pricing power and stable returns on media which appreciates in value.
Zora • Zora Whitepaper
But tech companies behave differently as they add a key feature to traditional supply-side economies of scale: network effects.
Nicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age
Mobility in particular needs to be reclaimed from VC-backed startups. Take scooters, for instance: instead of five different tech companies littering them indiscriminately with minimal public oversight, imagine a system that’s municipally owned and free at the point of use.
Wendy Liu • Abolish Silicon Valley
One such protection would be a Social Accountability Act stipulating that every corporation be graded according to an index of social worthiness, to be compiled by panels of randomly selected citizens, the equivalent of juries, chosen from a diverse pool of stakeholders: the company’s customers, members of the communities it affects, and so on. If... See more