Unlock the Potential of Networked Markets with Platform Revolution: A Guide to Transforming the Economy

autofila: An excellent book!!! I regret of not knowing about this book earlier!!! Plus, the very authoritative authors have written this book!!! Excellent!!!

United States on Aug 26, 2023

hnyuksel: Really insightful, step by step overview of how to build successful platform businesses.

United States on Aug 22, 2023

Timothée de Rancourt: 'Platform revolution' is a must-read for anyone interested in digital platforms. It takes the reader through the greatest successes - and failures - of that industry with well-known companies such as Uber, AWS, BlackBerry, Facebook etc.
The book systematically reviews key aspects of the platform business: economics, governance, business model etc. As such it could almost be used as a checklist for a platform entrepreneur.
In my view, the most interesting part of the book is the one on 'network effects' enjoyed by platforms, where the authors explain what makes platform companies so peculiar when compared with traditional businesses.

France on Aug 03, 2023

Tony Davis: This book is an excellent resource to understand the Platform business model, although maybe a bit dated in 2023. It covers all the key points and puts forward to good models. It is not an easy-reading book and you'll need to concentrate and take it one bite at a time. Its probably worth it though if you are thinking of starting, pivoting to, or investing in a platform based business

United States on Jan 03, 2023

Vaishnav Shelke: Must Read, Good real life examples provided for every topic

India on Oct 19, 2022

Yonni.I: As a product manager for a SaaS platform, this was a highly recommended read by a former colleague and was justified.

With 'professional development' books I often find they either:
1) Make the same point over and over again; or
2) Do not use (relevant real-world) examples to bring their point to life.

This book did neither and was highly engaging. That being said, it was a little dry at times, but this could be attributed to the fact that I was reading about business areas that do not interest me.

United Kingdom on Jul 06, 2022

Victor Casillas: A must read if you are interested in building a Platform.

Detailed analysis and case studies of successful platforms. Deep diving on all the concepts that one must understand to create a successful platform.

Also an important view of the networked economy, network effects and not only how they work, "but how to make them work for you."

Mexico on Jun 09, 2022

Business consultant: Although the book describes examples of new networked markets, the book doesn’t understand the most important principles and practices required for successful innovation in a market that go beyond just creating a business model as a “digital platform”. As an example of limited understanding, the book gives fundamentally wrong advice in Chapter 5 “Launch” on page 86 in “The Incumbent’s Advantage: Reality or Illusion?” with the implication that large incumbent companies in the platform business such as Amazon and Microsoft don’t have an advantage that is a barrier to entry for competitors. Huge investments are required to create the cloud computing resources to support a platform and incumbents that made those investments have a large advantage. Amazon has an additional advantage with investment in huge logistics resources that enable fast delivery of items available from a massive product catalog. The book doesn’t understand that innovation is primarily driven by new capabilities supporting the platform business models such as the capability of Google and Facebook to ascertain deep knowledge about individual consumer interests and behavior that can be shared...

United States on Jun 25, 2021

Felipe C. S. Moitta: Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy and How to Make Them Work for You (Parker, Geoffrey G.;Van Alstyne, Marshall W.;Choudary, Sangeet Paul)
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As we’ll explain, practically any industry in which information is an important ingredient is a candidate for the platform revolution.

A platform is a business based on enabling value-creating interactions between external producers and consumers. The platform provides an open, participative infrastructure for these interactions and sets governance conditions for them. The platform’s overarching purpose: to consummate matches among users and facilitate the exchange of goods, services, or social currency, thereby enabling value creation for all participants.

Platforms beat pipelines because platforms scale more efficiently by eliminating gatekeepers.

In their role as gatekeepers, universities can require families to buy the entire package because it is the only way they can get the valuable certification that a degree offers. However, given the choice, many students would...

Brazil on Feb 18, 2019

Steven Forth: Every so often I lead workshops on pricing strategy. For the past several years I have been telling people that if you are in a conventional business (what Parker, Van Alstyne and Choudary call a 'pipeline business') and you are competing against a platform business you have already lost. Pipeline businesses do not have winning strategies against multisided markets, or as this book calls them 'platform businesses.' This book is the single best introduction I have read to Platform Businesses. If you use (and if you are reading this you do use a Platform Business, Amazon), are working on or may compete against a Platform Business you need to read this book. I have been recommending it to my own team at TeamFit.co to my investees and to companies that come to me for pricing advice.

Platform Revolution has many strong points.It explains the feedback loops and network effects (positive and negative) that drive platform business dynamics, the chapter on monetization is excellent and the chapter on governance is a must read (I think I will send a copy to Vancouver's mayor). The book even has a short section on data ownership, which is likely to emerge as a major social issue over...

United States on Jul 04, 2016