This podcast is about separating networks (an asset) from platforms (a business model) from network effects (a phenomenon). And the three standard types of network effects.

You can listen to this podcast here or at iTunes, Google Podcasts and Himalaya.

I put networks into 3 types:

• Physical Networks
• Protocol Networks
• People Networks

I put network effects into 3 types:

• Direct (One-Sided) Network Effects
• Indirect (Two-Sided) Network Effects
• Standardization and Interoperability Network Effects

Questions for network effects:

• Local vs. regional vs. international network effects?
• Fast vs. slow network effects?
• Degree vs. value of connections?
• Minimum viable scale vs. asymptotic scale? What is congestion / saturation / degradation scale?
• Linear vs. exponential growth at different scales?

Here is Ant Financial’s self-description from its IPO filing:

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