Techorama 2015

Social media killed the newspaper, taxi drivers go on strike against a startup called Uber, Github is a billion dollar source code repository, Windows Phone has a hard time competing with Android and IPhone, Airbnb is worth 5 times as much as Hilton Hotels. Why? All of these surprising and seemingly unrelated facts actually do have something in common, and it's called the 'platform business model'. In this non-technical session I will explain you how the model works, so that you can use it to attack your rival businesses!