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Stripe: Platform of Platforms
Because of Stripe, internet businesses barely have to worry about payments.
Packy McCormick • Stripe: The Internet's Most Undervalued Company
Do they remain a Platform, or become an Aggregator?
Nikhil Basu Trivedi • Shopify and The Key Decision for Business-in-a-Box Platforms
Companies like Memberful, Patreon, Ghost or others could become the platform that Substack is aiming to build
Adam Keesling • Explaining a16z's Investment in Substack
Ben Thompson, who writes about business and technology on his blog, Stratechery, goes so far as to suggest that delivering this kind of value is, itself, the definition of a platform, as opposed to aggregators.
Nadia Eghbal • Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
We think we can help grow the internet economy in four primary ways-# Increasing the rate of new business creation by lowering the cost an$ complexity of getting started -# Helping established enterprises adapt their business mo$els to the internet-# Increasing cross-border commerce by simplifying and standardizing the complex internat... See more