Mapping Out The 16 Network Effects
NFX Masterclass · Season1: Network Effects · Episode3
Speakers: James Currier
When people first encounter network effects, they think there's a network effect or not. That's like saying there's life, and there's not life. There's actually different types of life and there's different types of network effects. Not all network effects are created equal. And we started studying and noticing this back in the 2000's, and when we got to 13 network effects, what we realized was we needed a map. So we've come up with a map to help us visualize the different network effects and where they all fit in in terms of their relative strength, what types they are, and delineating how they're different from each other. That was a few years back, now we're up to 16 network effects and we'll walk through all of them.
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