EP·002 — Who Owns Your Friends?

Your social graph is the most valuable thing you've ever built — and you don't hold the keys. On the case for taking your relationships with you.

What we’re asking

Every platform you've ever joined asked you to rebuild the same thing: the list of people you know. Then it kept the list.

Your social graph might be the most valuable asset you've ever created — valuable enough that entire business models exist to fence it in. This episode makes the case that relationships belong to the people in them, and follows what changes when connections become something you take with you instead of something you leave behind.

Expect practical stakes, not abstractions: switching costs, network effects, and what a portable friendship actually looks like in software.