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14. Why Do Most Ideas Fail to Scale?

The Freakonomics Radio Book Club

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Facebook Scaling Success Story or a Cautionary Tale?

Facebook is a great example of a good that has network externalities. If only two of my friends are on facebook, it's actually not a very important service for me. When the bad stuff is spreading, like you might think about a wildfire, and there we need to take extra care.

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