Sangeet Paul Choudary is is a widely published researcher, industry keynote speaker and global CXO advisor on 
platform business models to high growth startups and Fortune 500 companies. Sangeet has recently published 2 books, Platform Scale: How an emerging business model helps startups build large empires with minimum investment and the Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy–And How to Make Them Work for You. When researching the subject of platforms this year, these 2 books rose to the top of my pile and become a permanent part of my collection. It was unknown till later that Sangeet wrote the one and co-authored the other.
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