Sangeet Choudary, best-selling author of Platform Revolution and Platform Scale, has emerged as a global thought leader on the platform business model. The following article arose from an ...

Platform businesses are changing how we live and work, and we must keep up. After all, platforms are the backbone of the collaborative economy, and the collaborative economy is the future of business.

If further evidence were needed that platform business models are now mainstream in the technology sector, the inaugural EY Platform Economy Transformation Study provides it, with more than 70% of ...

A platform business model is a business that creates value by facilitating interactions between two or more groups, typically producers and consumers, and often to generate network effects.

Nick views platforms as the dominant business model of the 21st century because of their ability to expand to the total size of a market. He believes we are at the early stages (approximately 15 ...

A perfect example is Airbnb. The room-rental platform gained a valuation of $30 billion just eight years after its founding in 2008. In this situation, the platform business model benefited from ...

A platform business model creates value not solely through the business itself but by facilitating interactions between different groups, such as producers and consumers. The platform merely ...

Platform-based business models are well-established in consumer markets, as demonstrated by the likes of Uber and Airbnb. However, many firms in manufacturing and other B2B industries have been ...