Ben Scharfstein avatar
What company worth under $100b today is most likely to become a $1t company?
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Dan Romero avatar
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Coinbase, Stripe, Anduril
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Ben Scharfstein avatar
What needs to happen for coinbase? In a world where crypto is really working, what’s to stop competitors from eroding their margins?
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Dan Romero avatar
Be a tech company with networks effects than a brokerage.
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Ben Scharfstein avatar
Of Helmers 7 powers network effects seems like the one most disrupted by crypto In other words, do network effects in crypto accrue to the company or the protocol?
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Dan Romero avatar
They accrue to the apps people use. People confused Bitcoin for being a generalized thing because of blockspace scarcity.
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Ben Scharfstein avatar
I agree that owning the user experience is very valuable but to the extent that this leads to long term profits it seems more about scale economies than network effects. Network effects at the app layer don’t command the same type of pricing power they do in web 2. At least that’s my running hypothesis. Taking a step back, agree coinbase has huge potential upside
Giuliano Giacaglia 🌲 avatar
Adding other 3 that could become but less likely: Robinhood, DoorDash and Airbnb
Giuliano Giacaglia 🌲 avatar
Agree 💯💯💯
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+Neuralink
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