"The new question to ask[...] Could this product engage and retain 100s of millions of active users? For the first time ever, hitting 100+ million active users is actually realistic."
Where the author goes on to list a small handful of internet hits and misses as examples.
Realistic? Maybe for the top of the top apps and services. The "get a bunch of users and then solve the money problem" model seems the path of the apps that hit it out of the park, oftentimes fortuitously. Choosing it as a model doesn't seem prudent.
Where the author goes on to list a small handful of internet hits and misses as examples.
Realistic? Maybe for the top of the top apps and services. The "get a bunch of users and then solve the money problem" model seems the path of the apps that hit it out of the park, oftentimes fortuitously. Choosing it as a model doesn't seem prudent.