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by dmbass 4351 days ago
The title makes a dubious connection between their valuation and their technology. I guess that Secret investors are not interested in the technology but rather the network of users.
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I guess it just points out that technology != valuation. However, it also highlights that what Secret is doing isn't terribly special (nor Twitter, etc) and that they have a pretty reasonable chance of someone swooping in and taking over their market (happened with MySpace for example) at some point if the community becomes bored.
You don't understand how powerful network effects are.
network effect works both ways
Sorry for that! I just wanted to show the connection to a quite recent event, and I actually thought that anybody who knows about Secret already knew that their value is not 100% in their technology.