Network Effects
A product whose value to each user rises with the number of other users, producing increasing returns and often a single winner. The distinction that matters is between genuine same-side or cross-side effects and mere scale, which is far easier to attack. Where the effect is real it explains valuations that look absurd on current earnings.
7 books · 6 people behind it · 4 resources
Start here
- Zero to OnePeter Thiel, Blake Masters, 2014
- 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business StrategyHamilton Helmer, 2016
- Information RulesCarl Shapiro, Hal R. Varian, 1998
The people behind it 6
Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.
Investors 1
Founders 2
Strategists 2
Journalists 1
Resources 4
- Identifying Forms of Increasing ReturnsMichael J. Mauboussin · paper · Network effects and other sources of increasing returns.
- Winner Take All: The Tyranny of the Winner Take All EconomyShane Parrish · essay · How network scale concentrates returns in a few firms.
- Market ShareMichael J. Mauboussin · paper · Scale, share and the economics that follow from them.
- How People Get Rich NowPaul Graham · essay · Power-law wealth creation and why it shifted.
Books 7
T1 Zero to One
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters · 2014
Balaji S. SrinivasanEric WeinsteinMohnish PabraiNat EliasonPatrick O'ShaughnessyAlfred LinAna FabregaAnna ChengBen HorowitzBrett AdcockCasey NeistatChris DixonCodie SanchezDustin MoskovitzElon MuskEric JorgensonGuy ProopsJames AltucherJoel ConnollyKeith RaboisLuis von AhnMarc AndreessenMatt MullenwegMax LevchinMichael WongNiki ScevakReid HoffmanRyan PetersonSam AltmanSatya NadellaSophie BakalarSteph SmithTom Bilyeu
Geoffrey G. Parker, Marshall W. Van Alstyne, Sangeet Paul Choudary · 2016
Joshua Cooper Ramo · 2016 · Power in a networked age; connection as the source of advantage
