Scaling to Ecosystem Dominance

5/5 Creating modern unicorns Series: The Network Effects Playbook That Creates Unstoppable Agent Platforms

From 100 agents to 100,000 agents: The expansion methodology that transforms startups into category-defining ecosystems

The Platform Plateau Problem

Most successful agent platforms hit an invisible wall around 10,000 active agents. Growth stagnates. Transaction volume plateaus. Competitors start gaining ground.

The problem isn't technical capacity or marke…