Exploring the Impact of Digital Platforms

Concepts

The network effect isn’t good enough!

This essay originally appeared on TechCrunch. I had the pleasure of co-authoring it with Nir

Strategy

The case against the Sharing Economy

The Sharing Economy: Shaping the Future of Work.
A whole slew of labor platforms has come up over the last couple

Digital Transformation

The Rise of Platform Economics: A seismic shift in business models
Note: A variation of this article appeared as an op-ed on The Wall Street Journal's MarketWatch. This was co-authored with Geoffrey Parker

Digital Transformation

City-as-a-platform: Applying platform thinking to cities
Note: This is a guest post by Barbara Thornton. Barbara attended my lecture at Harvard Business School in July and

Growth

Incentives: How To Engineer User Growth and Virality

How to use producers to seed the platform - Leveraging content creators to drive growth and engagement in platform ecosystems
One of

Growth

How Apple Drank Its Own Kool-Aid And Created A Thriving Developer Ecosystem

APIs & Platforms: How Interfaces and Access Enable the Networked Economy - Exploring the Power of API-driven Platforms.
Imagine visiting eBay

Strategy

The One Feature That Changed Social Networking Forever
What is the single most important innovation that Facebook ever came up with? Before I answer that, let's think of the

Growth

How to build a two-sided marketplace with the Yelp model… and why Craigslist hates it!
I've talked about the chicken and egg problem in seeding two-sided marketplaces at length earlier. Producers

Strategy

Blockchain and the new face of decentralization
This post was co-authored with Griffin Anderson, founder of Blockchain as a Platform. Decentralization is a key theme in the