Platform Scale: For A Post-Pandemic World

by Sangeet Paul Choudary

Platform Scale is a maker's guide for entrepreneurs, innovators and educators looking to understand and implement the inner workings of highly scalable platform business models.The pandemic has accelerated the very grounds on which BigTech was supposed to be regulated. Data access, privacy and usage laws are being revisited to counter the pandemic through contact tracing and other surveillance mechanisms.The pandemic has reinforced the importance of the platform economy. In the 2020s, we will see the platform economy gain further strength as the post-pandemic world uncovers new value pools for platforms to exploit. This book provides a compelling framework for building platforms, networks and marketplaces.

Genres: Business

332 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 25, 2021

About the author

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 featured in Fast Company, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, MIT Technology Review, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, WIRED Magazine and other leading publications.

For all media-related, research-based advisory and speaker engagement services, contact him on @sanguit or http://platformthinkinglabs.com

Reviews

[Govi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Boring and repetitive