Platforms with Joe Wadcan // Metamuse podcast episode 63

55:00 - It’s pretty common to have these two-sided integrations. For example, building on Slack, and also on Google Calendar. You are 2x-ing your risk. Because you have to keep up with changes happening on both platforms. And either platform may steal the idea as well. But those 2-sided integrations can also be a goldmine niche.

54:50 - Slack created a venture fund attached to their ecosystem so they would try to be financially aligned with their ecosystem as much as they could.

54:00 - It's always a challenge to see further down than 6 months along the road because you don't always know what the platform is working on and what they are going to do. They have their own competitive forces to deal with. So you hope, "Hey I hope my niche isn't too interesting to them, that they want to take it over. But interesting enough tha... See more