Pattern Breakers

Anu Hariharan: How to think about network effects for your startup, from the beginning

May 3, 2021

36:30

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Anu Hariharan

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The Network Effects of Airbnb

01:20

Introduction

2min

How to Define a Network Effect

4min

The Importance of Metrics in the Age of Facebook

1min

The Impact of the Smile Curve on Facebook's User Growth

2min

The Different Types of Network Effects

2min

The Benefits of Network Effects

3min

How to Build a Network

5min

The Three Different Laws of Network Effects

2min

Airbnb and the Impact of Virality on Network Effects

5min

10.

The Varying Degrees of Network Effects in the Digital Domain

2min

11.

How to Build a Network

2min

12.

WhatsApp's Retention Metrics

4min

13.

How to Start a Great Network Effects Company

4min

Anu Hariharan from YCombinator's Continuity fund is one of Silicon Valley's top experts on network effects and how they can be applied to all types of different businesses. In this interview, Mike Maples of Floodgate talks to Anu about how a raw startup can design network effects into its business as a core strategy from the very beginning.Check out the Pattern Breakers Blog at patternbreakers.substack.com for even more Pattern Breaking content from Mike. Mike's book Pattern Breakers is available now wherever you buy books.