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What Uber’s China Deal Says About the Limits of Platforms

Harvard Business Review

The $1 billion burn rate in China was reportedly holding up its IPO, not just its expansion in other parts of the world. Are there really global network economies? While network economies generally are regarded as critical to winning with platforms, they, like economies of scale, often seem to be overestimated by executives.