ZBC#95 [Next Big Thing] Modern Monopolies/プラットフォーム革命
Today, let me introduce Modern Monopolies from Zenport Book Club#95 on Mar24th 2018.
As you guys know, the platform companies, Google, Facebook, Amazon rule the world now.
Because they are platform, their power become much stronger day by day.
Nowadays, to make sustainable and huge scale business, we cannot ignore to make platform.
But, how can we make it? To just get together users is enough?
For this question, Alex Moazed and Nicholas L. Johnson tell the answers.
Summary
- Today, the simple business model, making something then selling it is not enough. This kind of business model cannot last so long. That is proved by the history of prosperity and decline of smartphone companies, ASUS, Samsung and Xiaomi. In order to create sustainable and big business now, we need to make platform.
- In order to make platform, to keep good relationship between members is very important point. At each phase, the type of person who joins the platform are different, then platform need to prepare the reason for them to communicate there. To get the people together is not enough.
Discussion
- In order to make platform, it is not enough to just invite user and connect them. If we do like this, it becomes a noisy platform like Myspace and color. In that sense, building a platform is similar with making a company, and eventually building a nation.
- For platform business, the strategy is different based on the country, time and position in the market. The strategy of Alibaba against eBay proves that. In order to build platform, we always think about what is the best strategy for us. We should not just copy that of other countries.
Conclusion
Today, I introduced Modern Monopolies, that explains how to make platform.
Next, let me introduce We Wanted Workers from Zenport Book Club #96.
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