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Platform Scale

How an Emerging Business Model Helps Startups Build Large Empires with Minimum Investment

How to scale a startup by building a platform, not a product.

by Sangeet Paul Choudary

Choudary argues that today's fastest-scaling startups build platforms where others create and exchange value, rather than selling a product directly. The book offers practical frameworks for designing the core interaction, attracting both sides, and engineering network effects. It is a hands-on guide to platform design and growth.

Founders learn how platforms scale with minimal capital by orchestrating value created by users. It gives concrete design tools for the core interaction, the cold start, and growth loops. It is one of the most practical platform-building manuals for early founders.

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