6. CONNECTORS
IN A CONNECTION-ECONOMY:
• VALUE IS NOT FINITE
• SUCCESS IS NOT FIXED
• PROBLEM LEARNING > PROBLEM SOLVING
• INNOVATION = NEW VALUE NOT NEW IDEAS
• PLATFORMS CREATE SCALE
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7. Marketing Customers Products Business Value
Finds Purchase Fuel Creates
Growth
Promotes
Investment
Requires
INCREMENTAL GROWTH ENGINE: OPTIMIZATION
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9. USERS
270,000 IN YEAR 1
DID IT WORK?
VOICE
32,000 USERS
BOT
110K MESSAGES
REACH
BECAME THE #1 MOST POPULAR SPIRITS BRAND
BUSINESS
DOUBLE-DIGIT VOLUME GROWTH
We weren’t solving the wrong problems, we were solving the small ones
Architects building ant mounds
CHALL: Pay to reach audience (costly), Content capabilities, Solving problems but not learning them
We weren’t solving the wrong problems, we were solving the small ones
Architects building ant mounds
CHALL: Pay to reach audience (costly), Content capabilities, Solving problems but not learning them
Spanish for “Good Boss”
Uber & Lyft created 430K limos
AirBnB created 3M hotel rooms
Blue Apron… Spotify… Grub Hub
Q: Can Patrón create 500K bars across the world?