Strong API-first businesses sit in this sweet spot: they provide mission critical but non-core functionality to their customers, like accepting payments, providing cloud security, or sending communications to customers.
It’s clear that Uber, Lyft, Postmates, etc. have led to tremendous value creation, but that value has disproportionately accrued to executives, employees, and investors of those companies, rather than to the workers that enable these services to operate on a daily basis.
Most marketplaces are not well suited for repeated discovery. To keep their customers engaged they, therefore, need to continuously provide convenience. They can do this by acting as the platform over which the service is delivered (online-first marketplaces) or by building workflow tools to facilitate the delivery of the service (SaaS-enabled... See more
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