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Years it took products to reach 50 million users

Geoff Riley

27th December 2017

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A festive hat tip to Phil Hensman for spotting this tremendous graphic which highlights creative destruction and the power of network effects in driving technology adoption in the digital age. It took cars 62 years to reach 50 million users. What about Facebook?

This new report on technology trends in 2018 from Deloitte might also be worth looking at!

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

@tutor2uGeoff

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