“Moral outrage against corrupt leaders is not an isolated historical phenomenon but a common precursor of change.”
― The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
― The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
“A telephone without a connection at the other end of the line is not even a toy or a scientific instrument. It is one of the most useless things in the world. Its value depends on the connection with the other telephone and increases with the number of connections.”
― The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
― The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
“happiness and fulfillment do not come from pleasure but from meaning, from the pursuit of a noble purpose.”
― Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values
― Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values
“In contemporary parlance, the product is typically made of software whereas the network is typically made of people.”
― The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
― The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
“successful network effect requires both a product and its network”
― The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
― The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
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