Writing & Silicon Valley’s Foundation: Network Effects

Andrew did daily journaling, wanted to find ‘the secret of Silicon Valley’ – what made this machine work? His biggest finding = “Network Effects“

You need users to make a product work, network effects are the results of positively connecting people through technology which organically makes that technology better.

Metcalfe’s law is wrong – The value of network effects does have a limit, it eventually gets to a point of supply that is difficult to navigate and has an increased number of ‘trolls’ or illegitimate users