Platform Revolution
by Geoffrey G. Parker, Marshall W. Van Alstyne and Sangeet Paul Choudary
The academic treatment of platform business: architecture, launch, monetization, openness, governance and metrics. Thorough and framework-rich.
Read it if…
you want a comprehensive platform strategy text.
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Skip it if…
you want a narrative read.
Try instead: Modern Monopolies →
Three things you will actually use
- Platforms orchestrate; pipelines produce.
- Solve chicken-and-egg deliberately.
- Governance is strategy.
Do this first
Read the launch and monetization chapters.
Our verdict
Platform strategy, comprehensively.
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