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Investing in network effects with Sameer Singh

Talking about Platforms

CHAPTER

How to Build a Network Effect Business

If you're building a consumer network marketplace, I fundamentally credentials don't matter. What matters most is one does this person have emotional resilience because you will feel a lot and you have to figure out your way around that failures. If you're looking at B2B or vertical specific marketplaces usually these founders need to have some sort of the immersion in the space to be able to understand those problems they want to solve. And third, like you need, I think a product sense. Some, which is some empathy with the customer and an ability to figure out a product that is not necessarily technologically advanced.

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