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#2 - Network Effects with Anu Hariharan

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I think that messaging has a very strong network effect. It goes back to the simple thing of barriers to exit for the user. So I don't want to discount that they don't, but it may not be as strong as you saw in social networks. Do you see them continuing to grow in the US or do some of these like larger international players coming in and having a network effect here?

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