The Democratization of ‘Data Science As A Service’
In his 2010 Ted Talk "When Ideas Have Sex," Matt Ridley posits that human prosperity was caused by one thing and one thing only; our unique human ability to specialise and exchange ideas and tools.
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In his 2010 Ted Talk "When Ideas Have Sex," Matt Ridley posits that human prosperity was caused by one thing and one thing only; our unique human ability to specialise and exchange ideas and tools.
Half-way through 2012, you’d have been forgiven for thinking that Facebook was doing a MySpace. In other words, Facebook was on a fast path to slow, painful decline.
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One of the best ways to get a closer look “under the hood” of public companies is to check out their Investor Day presentations. Atlassian's 2019 Investor Session was a tour de force of Platform Economics.
The technology industry’s buzzword du jour is “platform.” Conceptually, the idea of a “platform” is not new, but technology companies’ desire to become platform companies, and the number of new companies claiming their status as a “platform” has accelerated dramatically over the last few years.
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Fast Company recently reported that contractors at multiple delivery platforms have partnered with labor advocacy group Working Washington to demand a $15/hour minimum wage across the entire gig economy.
In late 2016, whilst leading the Developer Platform team at Intercom, I published a blog post titled “Browsers, not apps, are the future of mobile.” It quickly became the most-read post published on Inside Intercom that year, and generated a lot of debate — externally on Hacker News and Medium, and internally within Intercom.
In early 2018 the city of San Jose — deep in California’s Santa Clara Valley — hosted two events a week apart that together signalled the most significant shift in a behaviour for over a decade.
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