Marketplaces and two-sided platforms
Businesses that make money by matching two groups and taking a cut; economics and practice are both well covered here.
9 books · 1 people behind it
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- The Perfect StoreAdam Cohen, 2002
- Platform RevolutionGeoffrey G. Parker, Marshall W. Van Alstyne, Sangeet Paul Choudary, 2016
- MatchmakersDavid S. Evans, Richard Schmalensee, 2016
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Books 9
Carl Shapiro, Hal R. Varian · 1998 · Lock-in, switching costs and versioning; still the sharpest account of information economics.
T1 Matchmakers
David S. Evans, Richard Schmalensee · 2016 · The economics of multi-sided markets, from village markets to card networks.
Geoffrey G. Parker, Marshall W. Van Alstyne, Sangeet Paul Choudary · 2016 · The standard text on network effects, governance and platform pricing.
Chris Anderson · 2006 · Why unlimited shelf space moves demand into the tail
Michael A. Cusumano, Annabelle Gawer, David B. Yoffie · 2019 · Innovation platforms versus transaction platforms, and why most fail.
Andrew Chen · 2021 · How network businesses get their first atomic network going.
Adam Cohen · 2002 · eBay: the cleanest early case of a pure marketplace take rate.
Sangeet Paul Choudary · 2015 · Designing the interaction that a platform is actually built around.
Alex Moazed, Nicholas L. Johnson · 2016 · Practitioner account of how platform businesses capture a transaction.