James Currier on Network Effects, Education, and Evaluating Startup Ideas

James Currier (@JamesCurrier) of NFX join Erik on this episode. They Discuss:

- Why hasn’t Linkedin been disrupted yet
- What does crypto do for generating network effects
- Where are today’s opportunities in consumer social
- Market networks and how they’ve evolved over time
- What’s wrong with education and can homeschooling be a solution
- Commoditization of higher education
- How to evaluate startup ideas
- How will venture evolve over the next decade
- What should founders better appreciate about the psychology of VCs

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