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Sangeet Paul Choudary is a widely published researcher, industry keynote speaker and global CXO advisor on platform business models to high growth startups and Fortune 500 companies.

He is the co-chair of the MIT Platform Strategy Summit and an industry advisor to the Global Platform Data Project at Stanford University. He is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at INSEAD Business School, an advisor at 500Startups, a Global Fellow at the Centre for Global Enterprise in New York and serves on the advisory board of CoFoundersLab, the world's largest community of startup founders.

Sangeet is also the author of Platform Revolution (W.W. Norton & Company, 2016), as well as a contributing author to Managing Startups (O'Reilly Media, 2013). He has been feat ...more

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The slow incumbent fallacy

We often believe that incumbents fail because they’re too slow.

It’s a convenient explanation.

It guarantees consensus theater.

Yet, it doesn’t quite explain why fast-moving incumbents fail.

The ones who do everything right by the textbook - the ones that both explore and exploit - the ones you talk about in HBS case studies.

Adobe checks all those boxes - one of the rare incumbents that made the le

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	Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy―and How to Make Them Work for You by Geoffrey G. Parker, Marshall W. Van Alstyne, Sangeet Paul Choudary (Goodreads Author) 4.04 avg rating — 4,638 ratings — published 2016 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Platform Scale: How an emerging business model helps startups build large empires with minimum investment 4.20 avg rating — 521 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy, Vol. 2 (HBR's 10 Must Reads, #38) by Harvard Business Review, Michael E. Porter (Contributor), Mark R. Kramer (Contributor) 4.24 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Engagement Banking Revolution by Change Makers, Jouk Pleiter, Eric Berridge 3.32 avg rating — 19 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“all design decisions should ensure the repeatability and sustainability of the core interaction that the platform enables.”
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“In the quest to transform into platforms, organizations must shift from a culture of dollar absorption to a culture of data absorption.”
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