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Over the last decade or so, we're seeing the emergence of a new form of scale. Today's massively scaling startups - which rapidly grow to millions of users and billions in valuation - do not sell a product or service. Instead, they build a platform on which others can create and exchange value. The many manifestations of the platform business model - social media, the peer economy, cryptocurrencies, APIs and developer ecosystems, the Internet of things, crowdsourcing models, and many others - are becoming increasingly relevant. Yet, most new platform ideas fail because the business design and growth strategies involved in building platforms are not well understood. Platform Scale lays out a structured approach to designing and growing a platform business model and addresses the key factors leading to the success and failure of these businesses. Six core concepts for successful platform business model design 1. Re-imagine your business for platform scale The mechanism by which these new business models scale so rapidly. Understand the shift in thinking needed to manage businesses with platform scale and the impact of network effects, virality, behavior design and data. "We are not in the business of building software. We are in the business of enabling interactions." 2. Leverage interaction-first design How detailed consideration around designing the producer-consumer core interaction is critical for building business models that leverage platform scale. "The design of the platform business model involves the design of a core interaction followed by the design of an open infrastructure that will enable and govern this interaction." 3. Build cumulative value and minimize interaction failure Know the key managerial decisions to focus on while managing platform scale businesses, all geared towards maximizing the ability of these businesses to enable interactions by scaling producer participation and minimizing interaction failure. "Platform scale is achieved by maximizing the repeatability and efficiency of the platform's core interaction." 4. Solve chicken and egg problems Platform business models face an all too familiar catch-22 chicken and egg problem on the way to scaling. This can be overcome by designing the conditions for sparking interactions. "The solution to the chicken-and-egg problem requires a bait that can break the vicious cycle of no activity." 5. Design viral engines Understand the drivers of viral growth in a world of networks and apply the viral canvas design-first approach to viral growth. "Virality is a business design problem, not a marketing or engineering effort. It requires design before optimization." 6. Account for reverse network effects Consider the counter view on platform scale and be on the lookout for conditions where scale can be detrimental to platform businesses. "The goal of platform scale is to ensure the simultaneous scaling of quantity and quality, of interactions." 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.

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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 the upcoming book Platform Revolution (W.W. Norton & Company, early 2016), as well as a contributing author to Managing Startups (O'Reilly Media, 2013). He has been featured in Harvard Business Review, MIT Technology Review, Fast Company, Forbes, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, WIRED Magazine and other leading publications.

For all media-related, research-based advisory and speaker engagement services, contact him on his popular Platform Thinking Labs blog.

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  • ISBN 13 9789810967581
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