Platform Economy

Oliver Birk has been leading the platform business within the BASF Automotive Refinish Coatings division since 2020. The business includes the digital platforms UBench in Belgium, which was acquired by BASF in 2019, and RepairFix in Germany, a corporate startup launched in 2020. These platforms serve fleet, leasing, and insurance…

Where the Instagram founder tries to present tried and tested formulas as pathbreaking innovations — Artifact is a news aggregation platform founded by Instagram founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. The app looks like an AI-powered and a more structured version of Google News, where you can follow different categories. You can also get news bundles around a particular topic. …

By Branka Andjelkovic and Tanja Jakobi, Public Policy Research Center Since the European Commission proposed the Directive on platform work, at the end of 2021, the debate on how to improve labour conditions for platform workers has continued to gain momentum. The proposal and subsequent discussions revolve around three main…

Špela Prijon and Sascha Kellert join us to share the latest news from Ownco — a platform that combines the best aspects of cooperatives, DAOs, and traditional startups to make shared ownership and the ownership economy more fluid and accessible. Podcast Notes Ownco’s approach to distributing ownership moves along four key…

By Maudie Derks, CEO, Acture Groep In light of the recent adoption of the Platform work directive everybody is curious about the actions that will be taken and the way this will work out in Europe and the different countries. We all agree that legislation forces people to act, and…

People and Platform The above picture represents a Possible Theme called “Platform Ecology”. Name: Platform Ecology Clue: People and Platform Type: knowledge theme Contributor: Reference: Curativity Theory, Activity Theory, Configurational Theory Related Themes: Possible Personas, Possible Practice, Possible Discipline On April 28, 2023, I wrote a post about a possible…

I was listening to Lex Friedman interview Max Tegmark last weekend.¹ Max discussed how he and others think companies are rapidly developing their AI products faster than is safe. That we are getting dangerously close to running ourselves right off the cliff edge. …

Unions are the masses' refuge against the avarice and malpractices of cartels and corporations. The first recorded strike in history occurred in ancient Egypt in 1152 BC, when the workers working on the royal necropolis at Deir el-Medina refused to work because they hadn’t been paid. In the 18th century…

So a whole bunch of people have asked me why I have decided to do my daily blogging on Medium instead of Substack. It’s a pretty controversial opinion cause Substack is the new hot platform, I have found, it’s not really great if my type of content. …