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#38—Jonathan Knee: Creating Your Competitive Advantage in the Age of Platforms and Ecosystems

Outthinkers

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Network Effects Is Not Really the Advantage

Network effects is how it manifests on the demand side, whereas fixed cost is how it manifested on the supplyside. So if you're in a network business and you're the smallest guy, that's bad news. The best reinforcing advantage is some kind of customer captivity,. Some kind of stickiness with your user base - which will stop them from just running to henry cravis's new competitor.

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