Chapter 4 Moving from Pipes to Platforms
Thank you Sangeet Paul Choudary
Tokenomics is not Economics Chapter Four from pipes to platforms.
In Chapter Three, we established a few things, such as,
- First, it is the miners, who set up the network
- Miners extract economic rents for the lifetime of the platform
- In the first Use Case, Local guest service providers are paid in advance
- In the first Use Case Local artists, local restaurant owners, local tour guides, hunting guides, and other local service providers fulfill guest requirements in App, paid in real-time, all networked on an IoT backbone.
Problems solved with this Platform First Approach?
- Millions of Tourism Livelihoods Lost
- Billions of Trees Burned
- The Digital Divide
- Rural Bandwidth Provisioning, Last Mile
- US GDP Growth
Chapter 4 Moving from Pipes to Platforms with Sangeet Paul Choudary
Successful Platforms= Network of Networks with a Place and a Purpose
Sangeet Paul Choudary shared This idea on the impact of the platform economy in 2016.
Platform businesses scale in a manner that is very different from traditional business models, Platform businesses scale without commensurate effort and costs involved from the business itself.
Sangeet Paul Choudary
Scalability is also available on the platform, often at or near zero marginal cost. And fundamentally this applies to every industry across the board.
In The Platform Revolution, Sangeet Paul Choudary called the traditional industrial businesses model the pipeline model. And that model works like this,
– You have somebody creating value from raw materials
– you have someone assembling these raw materials
– you have distribution
Whether you think of products, whether you think of services, whether you think of media, telecom, or any industry, works in this pipeline model starting at one end and pushing things out the other end.
The success of this model is to push more out at the minimum cost possible. And that is where the mass distribution mass production model came into being (Ford). But today, the way the world works is changing the business model is not just the pipeline anymore (Printing Automobiles locally).
Three shifts are happening
First of all, things are getting connected everywhere
The second is that every connected thing is becoming intelligent because It sends data, and it gets back intelligence. Connectivity and intelligence are working together. it’s not just connected it is Intelligent.
The third shift is that the means of production are no longer with the big companies anymore
The business acts as infrastructure and enables producers and consumers from outside to come in and interact with each other.
The business does not create the product itself.
Think of the iPhone.
The iPhone is not just an end product, which Apple sells and they are done. You see after the iPhone comes out, all of us personalize the iPhone because of our interactions with developers on the App Store. Without interactions, we used to have the Nokia model, which was two years of research launch 40 Different handsets confuse everybody and then sell 40 Different handsets in the pipeline model.
The same thing is happening in many different industries.
If you look at how hotels used to work they used to work in the pipeline model. Airbnb works in this platform-based model and is seeing this happening right now in the car industry, the energy industry, and a lot of different industries that are moving in this direction.
What’s interesting and important about the platform business model, and I’ll come back to this repeatedly is that the platform model is centered around the code interaction between two participants in the ecosystem (Peer to Peer). The goal of a platform business model is to be an infrastructure on which these interactions happen.
And the repeated goal is to keep increasing the quality and the quantity of these interactions using the feedback loop. In a platform model, once your customers and your suppliers start interacting with each other, you start improving the quality of those interactions and that is how you scale.
If you think of LinkedIn, LinkedIn started by enabling simple interactions to help professionals to connect and just provided the infrastructure to enable these interactions.
It also focused on increasing the quantity of these interactions. So it connected with your Outlook, Gmail, Calendar, and all of those things. It had gotten all of this data about different professionals. And it started using this data to connect these professionals with interesting job opportunities.
And then LinkedIn realized that unlike Facebook and did not have good engagement, so it started with third interaction. It started bringing influencers on the platform to start publishing content. And over time, opened that so that everybody could start publishing their content as well.
This LinkedIn model or the platform model is to keep the central infrastructure on which more than more people can plug in and keep interacting in new ways.
And this is where the value of the platform model comes in.
Because the more interactions you enable, the more opportunity there is for you as a business to capture that value. When we run these businesses, we stop measuring consumers and instead measure participants.
We don’t just look at who’s buying a product and or how many they buy.
We look at key performance indicators (KPIs) that show how people are participating in our platform business. We try to start converting our products into services that integrate with our customers. And then we start basing our revenue models on customer success (CX).
So we start moving from a consumption-driven model to an outcome-driven model. And in the same industry and location, if you have one business selling a consumption-driven model (Nokia), and another business selling an outcome-driven model (iPhone), the outcome-based model will have a better CX across the board (absolute value of 100%).
Remember the S-Curve?
I will use the use cases mentioned earlier in this document to illustrate this process.
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