Platform business model
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November 2026
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Ethics & corporate governance11 min readGig platforms: efficient or unfair? Reading the Uber driver data
For owners and managers who use or plan to build a gig platform. Transaction-cost theory explains why platforms are cheaper to run; US data for 2015 to 2017 show drivers keeping about 47.5 cents of each dollar a rider paid, after fees and vehicle costs. Both can be true at once.
Entrepreneurship & innovation10 min readThe Business Model Canvas, drawn for AirAsia and Airbnb
For owners and founders who need to describe a company on one page. Drawing the nine blocks for AirAsia and Airbnb from public sources shows an airline held tight by cost, a platform held tight by two groups that need each other, and which cells the sources leave empty.
- Entrepreneurship & innovation10 min read
Platforms and the chicken-and-egg problem: which side first?
For anyone building an app or marketplace that links two groups, such as repairers and householders. Without customers the repairers do not come, and without repairers the customers do not; a study of three start-ups shows three ways to start, and what each costs.