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The Founders’ List: "The 3 Types of Platform Companies" by Elad Gil (Color Genomics & Twitter)

The NFX Podcast

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How to Build a Platform That Succeeds

Many entrepreneurs set out to build a platform without any real vertical application underlying it. Most companies that confuse these two things tend to fail. The key way to tell if your platform product will fail is if you need to build the first killer app for the platform yourself, NFX says.

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