Every connection has a source.
The Network Source is building products that connect people across the world: to work, to opportunity and to each other.
Six handshakes
Pick a stranger on the other side of the world: someone near São Paulo, 14,800 km from you.
How many people stand between you?
In 1967, psychologist Stanley Milgram asked people to pass a letter to a stranger through friends of friends. The letters that arrived passed through about five people. It's where "six degrees of separation" comes from.
Your own chain to São Paulo might pass through a few cities.
In 2016, Facebook measured the distance between its users. On average, just 3.57 people stood between any two of them.
The world keeps getting closer.
Distance is no longer the problem. The first introduction is.
That's what we're building: products that introduce the right people to each other, safely, anywhere on Earth.
Why it mattersSame people. Different connections.
Every product we build starts with the same thing: people. What changes is the shape of the connection between them.
People find the teams and work that fit them, and teams find them back. Hubs form, and the hubs connect to each other.
Friendship and love start with two people. Some of the most important connections in a life are one to one.
Many people around one shared thing: a craft, a city, a cause, a question. A few bridges join one community to the next.
People who can, meeting people who need: skills, services and ideas finding the places they're wanted.
We aren't announcing products yet. Each shape is a direction we're exploring.
Online isn't the same as connected.
The reach already exists. The connections don't, yet.
What we hold to
Trust is the product.
A connection is only worth making if both people can trust it. Safety and verification come first, not later.
Privacy by default.
We collect what a product needs, explain why, and let people leave with their data.
Built for the whole world.
Many languages, slow networks, low-cost phones and people of all abilities, from the very first version.
People over screen time.
We measure connections that change lives, not minutes spent scrolling.