Chapter 22 — Twitch Hitting the ceiling is painful, especially after years of endless growth. Exponential growth curves can turn into a squiggle? Why. Because there are negative forces that appear during the last stage of the lifecycle of a network. Market saturation, churn for early users, bad behaviors from…

Chapter 17 — Dropbox When networked products start to work. They can really work. By the time of dropbox’s IPO in 2018, cofounders of Dropbox had built a Saas startup that was the fastest in the category to reach a billion dollars in annual recurring revenue. Many of their key…

Part III — The Tipping Point Chapter 11 — Tinder Datings apps are hard to start and even harder to scale. Dating is a hyper-local affair. Where even if people are in the same city that’s not enough to meet up. Don’t ask two single people, one in SF and…

Part II: The Cold Start Problem Chapter 4 — Tiny Speck (Slack) When you start a new product with network effects the first step is to build a single tiny network that’s self-sustaining. You just need one to get started. Tiny speck was building a multiplayer game called Glitch. It was a multiplayer game in the…

Part I Network Effects Chapter 1 — What’s A Network Effect Anyway A Network effect is what happens when products get more valuable when more people use them Uber — More users join the app the more users would quickly find someone to take them from point A to point B. Also, this meant…

I’ve always wanted to say thanks but I never knew how. Working for this company taught me a ton of lessons that I couldn’t imagine getting anywhere else at that young and tender age. You were my real first real introduction to technology and business. My first glance at how…

Now tell me what you’ve learned?…. Environment is everything Everyone’s progress looks different You define your finish line Distraction reduction is a real thing No regrets, make the most of what you have now Growing your network is extremely powerful Listening is very important You can do more to put yourself first There is always room to get better internally Having something to look forward to is very important

Gold Standard Lebron, Kobe, MJ, Cristiano, Messi, Brady, Bezos, Musk, Jobs So you want to be like the men above. Are you ready to work for it? Most times people say they want to be the best but they refrain from doing the necessary work. What is that work? Some…

I had to get ahead of it to make sure the narrative wasn’t tainted. Had to be patient, checked it 3 times before I cocked it and aimed it. I had to push the envelope to make sure the letter was delivered. I know I made you fall to a…