> [!abstract] >"Reed's law is the assertion of [American computer scientist] David P. Reed that the utility of large networks, particularly social networks, can scale exponentially with the size of the network" ("Reed's law", 2024). > [!quote] > "Even Metcalfe's law understates the value created by a group-forming network (GFN) as it grows. Let's say you have a GFN with *n* members. If you add up all the potential two-person groups, three-person groups, and so on that those members could form, the number of possible groups equals 2^n. So the value of a GFN increases exponentially, in proportion to 2^n. I call that Reed's Law. And its implications are profound" (Reed, 2001). ## References - Reed's law. (2024, December 29). In *Wikipedia*. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reed%27s_law&oldid=1237653110 - Reed, D. P. (2001). The law of the pack. *Harvard Business Review*, 23–24. https://hbr.org/2001/02/the-law-of-the-pack ## Related - [[Metcalfe's law]]