Sublime

Bloomberg is an example of the classic Web 2.0 business maxim “come for the tool, stay for the network.” But the inverse trajectory, from which this essay takes its name, is now equally viable: “come for the network, pay for the tool.” Just as built-in social networks are a moat for information products, customized tooling is a moat for social

roughly half of the population over its lifetime and an average of 11,000 unique daily visitors.

The platform faced challenges due to the intensive volunteering effort required, the absence of mandates for governmental responses, and its somewhat narrow focus.

a natural way to fund public/supermodular goods without relying excessively on the limited knowledge of administrators is for such an administrator, philanthropist, or public authority to match contributions by distributed individuals.

More users means more behavioral data, which in turn allows for more fine-grained content recommendations—a kind of data-driven network effect that belies the credit scoring examples I discussed earlier as well.