Mar 30, 2022
On Airbnb, people stay at strangers' homes. On Twitter, people get trolled. Both are global tech platforms, but why do people treat strangers well on one, and badly on the other?
The answer lies in platform governance: the rules you make to encourage good interactions and punish the bad stuff. Learn how to set up...
Mar 23, 2022
How do you launch a dating app, if you have no men and no women on it? Or, how do you launch a market place with niether buyers nor sellers?
This is the chicken and egg problem that all platforms have to solve to succeed.
In this week's episode, you'll learn 6 methods for how to launch a platform when you have no users....
Mar 16, 2022
Facebook disrupted the media market forever. The Apple App Store created the app economy, valued at $6.3 trillion today. What makes platforms like these SO successful?
In this episode, you will learn the core concepts behind platform businesses, so you can identify platforms in the making or build them yourself.
This is...
Mar 9, 2022
Does having $2 billion in the bank account and celebrity backing guarantee success for a consumer app? Not necessarily.
Listen to how one company burned through almost $2 billion and had to shut down their app after just 6 months. Learn what Quibi did wrong, so you can avoid their mistakes.
Learning notes from this...
Mar 2, 2022
Developers don't work in the same ways as non-technical professionals. If you don't know how to work with developers, you can waste thousands of dollars and get very frustrated, as you'll see from the story Sophia shares on this week's episode.
Learning notes from this episode:
- A feature cannot be released when it is...