Clubhouse is an interactive audio-only social platform. Users can join audio-only conversations like joining a group of people chit-chatting around an actual clubhouse. Once you leave, so does any record of the conversation. This makes for some interesting conversations, but […]
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MindBody: the playbook for SaaS-enabled platforms
Many of you may think of MindBody as the platform you use to book fitness classes. It turns out that this platform play was only introduced almost a decade later by MindBody. Since its inception, MindBody understood the power of becoming the operating system for a small business and the loyalty that comes with it. Disintermediation? Well, for them it’s not that big of a deal, since the platform play is just another feature in its suite of tools for small businesses to thrive.
Bumble: Monetizing Empowerment
A look at how bumble creates value while sticking to its mission of providing women more agency over their online dating experience.
Exploitive Platforms: How Tinder Exploits Lonely Men to Make MASSIVE Profits
Tinder is a matching platform that helps strangers within a reasonable geographic radius to meet and to converse if both users express interest. The platform makes gigantic profits by exploiting lonely men who pay outrageous asymmetric prices for premium features/services that barely help their prospects based on empirical evidence. This blog post explores the dark side of platforms.
Headspace: staying grounded during the Pandemic
The sudden outbreak of covid-19 and the subsequent lockdown resulted in the need for an ubiquitous and accessible solution for mental health. Headspace was definitely one of the big winners of the Pandemic.
Steam: Upping the game in 2020
The video game industry has flourished through 2020 and Steam has been a platform where a lot of that growth has happened.
Color: a unicorn born amidst the COVID-19 pandemic
Color: a genetics testing company took advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to transforms itself into a digital public health unicorn with a colorful future.
Redfin: The Dream Quarantine Makeover
Dive into how the tech enabled real estate brokerage site prepared itself for the surprising Covid housing boom.
Harvard Business School – Remains Open
How Harvard Business School stayed open during a global pandemic
Udemy: Taking Advantage of a New Normal
Udemy has undeniably been one of the few companies that directly benefitted from the unprecedented times we are living in. They managed to take advantage of new digital opportunities in the e-learning space by combining a winning business model with an increasing focus on new customer segments.