Platforms are essential to business model innovation in all companies today, from startups to tech giants and large enterprises. Platform Hunt is an open initiative turning the art of building a platform into science.

Almost every software entrepreneur nowadays builds some kind of a ‘platform’. Yet very few will confidently answer a seemingly simple, but very important question: What kind of platform do you build?

Platforms disrupt industry after industry: Google disrupts advertising, Facebook disrupts telecom, Amazon disrupts retail, Apple disrupts music (again), Android disrupts consumer electronics, AirBnB disrupts hotels, Uber disrupts transportation, Zenefits disrupts insurance, Munchery…