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This post covers some uninteresting information about 2U's market cap and the possible billion dollar acquisition of the company by Byju's (which itself just laid off hundreds of staff). But then it gets into a more interesting discussion of the attempt "to define a new online education platform market that relies on network effects enabled by consumer-level flywheels (i.e., beyond the heavy digital marketing based primarily around institutional brands)."

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