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Eric Schmidt: evaluation

7 Nov 2018 Conversations with Tyler Eric Schmidt on the Life-Changing Magic of Systematizing, Scaling, and Saying "Thanks" (Live)

“My personal success, I think, has largely been because I’m interested in network economics and network platforms.”

— Eric Schmidt

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Eric Schmidt
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evaluation
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7 Nov 2018
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Conversations with Tyler

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…Give it time, right? [laughter] But I have a lot of respect for economics because people really do study these platforms that people build on. My personal success, I think, has largely been because I’m interested in network economics and network platforms. Pretty much everything you all build on is essentially a platform. Platforms have unique structures and scales, and they, in fact, follow economics laws. Now I learned through Google, of all sources, that in college, you were at first a major in architecture. What was your thinking behind that?…

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