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Devansh's avatar

One question about the economies of scale here- what about the impact of loyalty and ease of switching. One reason SoMe platforms benefit from platform plays is that once you're on them- there are huge costs to switching. This is not something platforms like Uber and/or LLMs can replicate yet- which means they're much more susceptible to price wars.

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Ben Thomas's avatar

I was amazed when Meta launched their AI assistant and leveraged their massive existing platforms to instantly achieve what would take most companies years to build - an enormous user base for their AI by seamlessly integrating it into Instagram, WhatsApp, and other popular platforms where billions are already engaged.

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