Uber is such a fascinating company, because when it was growing incredibly fast, at one point we were adding three % of the wor population each year into the platform. And what i learned there that was so fascinating is, on one hand, and it's so easy to look at a business like that, which is worth tens of billions of dollars,. It has network effacts. The more that both sides are using it, the better off the product is. But just because you have a lot of market share in a place like new york, where uber has a tonna market shair as no real competitors, doesn't mean that the product works any better than in san francisco or
Andrew Chen is a specialist in growing tech businesses and for his new book, The Cold Start Problem, he has spoken to the founders of companies such as LinkedIn, Zoom, Uber, Dropbox, Tinder and Airbnb, to learn how startups can maximise their potential. Andrew has spent a career working with tech companies and tech investors, plus he's also a prolific writer with both a popular blog and newsletter. He joins economist and broadcaster Linda Yueh to discuss the new book and offer his insider's perspective on Silicon Valley success.
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