How Did You Get Into Platforms?

Daniel Treisman: What is a platform and how did you end up studying it? Andreas Riazzano, co-author of the paper that we're going to talk about. The papers published in electronic markets, great information systems journal in 2020. He says platforms govern those interactions between supply and demand. Traisman: It's basically a marketplace, like a farmers market, where you have supply and demand meeting on a platform.