How Network Effects Rule the World (with James Currier)

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

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🗓️ 6 October 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Google, Facebook, Apple, and Uber are just some of the enormous companies that derive part of their value from network effects: the more users they have, the more value they provide. Serial entrepreneur and early-stage investor James Currier is one of the world’s foremost experts on networks, and on the companies that use them best. He joins Azeem Azhar to discuss how companies with network effects dominate markets, and why their influence will likely continue to grow.

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0:00.0	There's no shortage of tech podcasts, but few give you a true dose of the future.
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0:24.0	HBR presents.
0:35.0	Hi there, I'm Azim Azar and you're listening to the exponential view podcast.
0:39.0	Every week I come together with a brilliant mind to explore how exponential technologies are shaping on near future.
0:46.0	This is the first episode after our brief summer hiatus I missed you.
0:51.0	I hope you all missed us. I am so excited about the brilliant guests we've got lined up.
0:57.0	Now, while we were away, my book, The Exponential Age, or for those of you outside of US and Canada,
1:03.0	it's called Exponential was published.
1:06.0	In the book, I lay out a thesis for the exponential age, the new period of human affairs
1:11.0	catalyzed by accelerating technology platforms.
1:14.0	Platforms are operating across the four broad domains, many of which we've talked about
1:18.0	in this podcast, computing energy, biology, and manufacturing.
1:23.0	I loved writing it. I'm sure if you like this podcast, you will enjoy reading it.
1:28.0	No, you will love reading it. Please get a copy wherever you get your favorite books
1:32.0	or you can find links to buy it at www.exponential-book.com, that's www.exponential-book.com.
1:42.0	Now onto my guest today. James Courier is one of Silicon Valley's best thinkers on growth and networks.
1:50.0	He has founded several successful businesses, including Tickle, one of the Internet's first successful
1:55.0	user-generated companies. He pioneered many techniques that are ubiquitous today, including
2:00.0	viral marketing, AB testing, and crowd sourcing.
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