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Creating feedback loops from data and AI
How to create or strengthen feedback loops for products that can learn from customer data
 • 
Andrei Hagiu
 and 
Julian Wright
How defensible are the network effects on API platforms?
Under what conditions do API platforms have real and defensible network effects, as opposed to being just one-sided outsourcing services?
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Andrei Hagiu
 and 
Julian Wright
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Audius – the decentralized platform for music
What makes Audius’ decentralized model particularly suitable for the music industry and what are its main weaknesses?
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Andrei Hagiu
 and 
Julian Wright
2
Product-to-platform part VII: Corning’s Gorilla Glass
How can Corning’s Gorilla Glass be transformed into a platform by reaching out to its customers’ customers?
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Andrei Hagiu
 and 
Julian Wright
2
The pros and cons of decentralized platforms
What are the factors that make decentralized platforms better or worse than centralized platforms?
 • 
Andrei Hagiu
, 
Julian Wright
, and 
Hanna Halaburda
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Is OpenSea any more decentralized than eBay?
OpenSea is oftentimes described as a decentralized platform. That is misleading.
 • 
Andrei Hagiu
 and 
Julian Wright
Will network effects save Ethereum from the Ethereum killers?
What are the network effects around Ethereum and layer-1 blockchains more generally, and how defensible are they?
 • 
Andrei Hagiu
 and 
Julian Wright
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Platform Chronicles
The ins and outs of businesses built around network effects, platforms and data-enabled learning.

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