In season three of the podcast, the hosts discuss their personal journeys and the origins of platform thinking. They emphasize the importance of understanding and shaping platforms through research and collaboration. The hosts also explore different formats for practicing platform thinking and discuss the potential of platforms in various contexts.

Not All Platforms Are Created Equal Sameer's bio: Sameer Singh is an early-stage investor focused on network effects, a Venture Partner at Speedinvest, and part of the Atomico Angel Program. He created Breadcrumb.vc in 2020 to help founders understand and leverage network effects. Sameer then launched a cohort-based course called Applied Network Effects in 2021 to create a structured learning program for founders, product/growth professionals, and investors. Link to Breadcrumb VC: https://breadcrumb.vc/ Link to Sameer's Network Effects Course: https://maven.com/breadcrumb/applied-network-effects/

Understand, Design and Innovate Multi-Sided Platform Businesses Ted's bio: Ted Ladd is a full Professor of Entrepreneurship, former Global Dean of Research and former Dean of the San Francisco Campus at the Hult International Business School. He is also an Instructor of Platform Entrepreneurship at Harvard University and Stanford University. His research focuses on innovation in general and multi-sided platforms in specific, published in a range of academic and practitioner-focused channels. His most recent book, Innovating With Impact, with Alessandro Lanteri, is published by the Economist and distributed by Profile and Pegasus. He was a member of seven different startups in Silicon Valley. The most recent was acquired by Google. Link to the Platform Canvas: https://www.theplatformcanvas.com/ Link to Ted's new book "Innovating with Impact": https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B0B3Y8FMFH/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0 Ted on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tedladd/

Between active design and guided serendipity. Llewellyn's bio: Llewellyn D.W. Thomas holds a Ph.D. from Imperial College Business School, an M.B.A. (with Distinction) from Cass Business School, a L.L.B. (Honours) from University of Sydney and B.A. (Honours), also from University of Sydney. He also holds a Diploma in Company Direction from the Institute of Directors, London and a Professional Diploma in Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing, London. Prof. Thomas’s teaching is focused on the impact of digitalization on organizations and with special emphasis on the redesign of processes and the challenge for senior executives to develop a digital mindset. His research interests lie in the co-evolutionary processes that lead to successful digital innovation and entrepreneurship. He focuses on ecosystem creation, evolution and dynamics in digital economy contexts. Llewellyn’s research is presented regularly at top-tier conferences, including the yearly Academy of Management Conference. His work has appeared in top-tier journals, including Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Industrial and Corporate Change, and the Academy of Management Perspectives. He has also published in other journals, including Communications of the ACM, Business Horizons, and Telecommunications Policy. Link to the paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0166497221002224?via%3Dihub Llewellyn's Google Scholar:https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=t1qZ7xwAAAAJ&hl=en

Synthesising research on digital platforms and digital platform ecosystems to provide a definition that integrates both concepts. Andreas' bio: Dr. Andreas Hein Head of Research Group Digital Platforms and eGovernment at the Technical University in Munich. His research focuses on digital platforms ecosystems; business models; service ecosystems; value co-creation. Link to the paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12525-019-00377-4 Link to Andreas' Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreas-hein-84a17391/?originalSubdomain=de

Blockchain, Machine Learning and the Future of the Digital Platform JP's bio: JP Vergne examines the evolution of capitalist societies since the early 17th century. In particular, he explores how socially contested organizations affect the renewal of industries at the vanguard of the economy. His award-winning research on piracy, on the global arms industry around 9/11, and on the rise of blockchain-powered organizations has been published in leading academic journals as well as in two books. His findings have been featured in such media outlets as the Financial Times, The Globe & Mail, The Economist, Bloomberg, CBC Radio and TV, Forbes, as well as in various cryptocurrency news sources. JP has given keynote presentations at international technology conferences (e.g. Google Zeitgeist, South by Southwest, TEDx) and at high-profile corporate events. Link to the paper: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2631787720977052 Link to JP's university page: https://www.mgmt.ucl.ac.uk/people/jeanphilippevergne JP's Twitter: @PirateOrg Further reading: Hsieh, Y., & Vergne, J. P. (2022). The Future of the Web? The Coordination and Early‐Stage Growth of Decentralized Platforms. Strategic Management Journal. doi:10.1002/smj.3455 Hsieh, Y., Vergne, J. P., Anderson, P., Lakhani, K., & Reitzig, M. (2018). Bitcoin and the rise of decentralized autonomous organizations. Journal of Organization Design, 7 (14). doi:10.1186/s41469-018-0038-1

From VP in industry to HBS and becoming a professor doing cutting-edge research about the future of the workforce. Liz's bio: Elizabeth J. Altman is an associate professor of management at the University of Massachusetts Lowell’s Manning School of Business. Liz is also guest editor for the MIT Sloan Management Review Future of the Workforce Big Ideas initiative, a joint research effort with Deloitte. She has served as a visiting scholar at Harvard Business School and a visiting professor at the U.S. Military Academy (West Point). Her’s research focuses on topics related to strategy, innovation, platforms, ecosystems, organizational change, and the future of work. Before entering academia, Liz spent 19 years in industry, primarily in mobile telecommunications, including nine years as a vice president at Motorola. She holds a doctorate in business administration from Harvard University, master of science degrees in mechanical engineering and management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell University. The Future of the Workforce Initiative at SMR: https://sloanreview.mit.edu/big-ideas/future-of-the-workforce/ Finding the Platform in Your Product: https://hbr.org/2017/07/finding-the-platform-in-your-product The Translucent Hand of Managed Ecosystems: Engaging Communities for Value Creation and Capture: https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/annals.2020.0244 Liz's upcoming book about Workforce Ecosystems on Amazon: https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Elizabeth-J-Altman/dp/0262047772/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2P3GD40S7I5TZ&keywords=elizabeth+altman&qid=1673118859&sprefix=elizabeth+altman%2Caps%2C104&sr=8-1 (pre-ordern now! ;) Liz on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizaltman/

As firms consider transitioning proprietary products to more open platforms to grow market share and relevance, managers might consider the concerns of external participants when designing a system to govern a platform. Rebecca's bio: Rebecca Karp is an Assistant Professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches Strategy in the MBA required curriculum. Professor Karp is a field researcher and ethnographer. Her research examines how companies formulate and execute strategies for growth. In particular, she focuses on the role innovation and differentation play in product development, integration, strategy execution, and oragnizational change. Professor Karp’s research spans the healthcare, financial services, video gaming, media and creative industries. She has also studied how large companies and entrepreneurs can develop and implement AI technologies to reshape their competitive differentiation. Link to the paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/smj.3150 Rebecca's Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-karp-a286202/

Competition, incentives, and the future of digital platforms in light of emerging blockchain and web3 technologies. Hanna's bio: Hanna Halaburda joined New York University Stern School of Business as an Associate Professor of Technology, Operations and Statistics in September 2019. In her research, Professor Halaburda studies how technology changes economic forces and thus affects business models and interactions in the marketplace. One strand of her work focuses on competition between digital platforms. Since 2011, she has built a research program in digital currencies and blockchain technologies, including analyses of incentives in consensus protocols, cryptocurrency adoption, smart contracts, and token issuance. Professor Halaburda’s work has been published in Management Science, RAND, American Economic Journal, Games and Economic Behavior, and other academic journals. In 2015 she co-authored Beyond Bitcoin: The Economics of Digital Currency, the first book analyzing digital currencies from the economic perspective. The book’s 2nd edition, co-authored with Miklos Sarvary and Guillaume Haeringer, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2022. Prior to joining NYU Stern, Professor Halaburda was an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School, and a senior economist at the Bank of Canada. She holds Master’s degrees in Economics from the Warsaw School of Economics and in Philosophy from Warsaw University, and a PhD in Economics from Northwestern University. Link to the paper: https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/mnsc.2020.3636 Hanna's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hanna-halaburda-7b368b12/ Hanna's Twitter: @hannahalaburda Link to Hanna's book Beyond Bitcoin: https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Bitcoin_-Economics-of-Digital-Currencies-and-Blockchain-Technologies/dp/3030889300

How digital platforms are overtaking the state and how we can regain control Vili's bio: Vili Lehdonvirta is a Professor of Economic Sociology and Digital Social Research at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. His research examines how digital technologies are used to reshape the organization of economic activities in society, from gig platforms to online marketplaces and virtual currencies to crowdfunding. Link to the book, Cloud Empires: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047227/cloud-empires/ Vili's website at the OII: https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/profiles/vili-lehdonvirta/ Vili at Twitter: @ViliLe Vili at Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vililehdonvirta/