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Li Jin
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This Friday at 3pm ET, I’m hosting an AMA with @eugene in this channel! He’s an incisive student of tech, authoring classics like Status as a Service and Seeing like an Algorithm. Ask him about social networks, consumer product, and insights from his years as a product exec at Oculus, Hulu, and Flipboard!
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Weilei
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Q: I love the idea of letting users own their social graph. But talking to a few founders they shared the biggest limitation is it puts a ceiling on how large an app can grow because there is no defensible moat. Every new app can access the entire user base others onboarded. How to address that challenge?
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Li Jin
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In a world of user-owned social graphs, the value for app developers shifts to competing on the core product, instead of data lock-in Think of podcasting or email applications: the differentiation is in the product experience (or user distribution in Apple's case), not the underlying data
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Eugene Wei
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It's definitely difficult because advertising is the dominant business model of traditional social media. That makes holding onto your own graphs a dominant strategy. But platforms that don't depend on monetizing eyeballs don't need to clutch their graphs so tightly.
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