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Meta Comes Roaring Back, What the Market Missed Last Fall, The Compromises that Define the Modern Internet

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

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The Network Effect Is Real

Facebook's fundamental weakness, if you're looking at it as sort of an investor, is absolutely at some point people just get sick of it and stop using it. But Facebook also has this massive built-in advantage where they have three billion users. And these big companies responding and incorporating these things into their products is also a market response. There's a sense that a market response can only be when the incumbent loses.

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