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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

Ultifi is the first step in GM's new business model, Miller said. It builds on GM's current vehicle intelligence platform (VIP). Think of VIP as a smartphone and Ultifi as the operating system ...