Which is a tougher network effect to create/break: 2 sided: “We sell here because that’s where the buyers are and we buy here because that’s where the sellers are” I.e. eBay auctions 1 sided: “I’m here because my friends are and they’re here because I am” I.e. Twitter
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Replying to @Molson_Hart
Both seem equally unpenetrable via direct assault.
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Replying to @mgirdley
Agreed. Maybe, if you had like a trillion dollars, you could do it, even with the same product but even that I doubt.
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Replying to @mgirdley
I tried thinking about attacking 1 sides vs 2 sided network effects. I think, mathematically, it’s easier to break and harder to create 2 sided ones; twice as many angles of attack, twice as many needs to fill. I realized that, in a weird way, goodreads might be especially hard.
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Suppose you could shift the entire population of twitter to an identical site without content older than 3 days. It would probably work because Twitter is based on the now. Goodreads is not. If you moved all the users to a new site, they couldn’t read the years of old relevant.
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