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Vikas Acharya

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DISTRIBUTION AND VIRALITY Many people in Silicon Valley like to focus on building products that are, in the famous words of the late Steve Jobs, "insanely great." Great products are certainly a positive, but the cold and unromantic fact is that a good product with great distribution will almost always beat a great product with poor distribution." - Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn

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