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Platformonomics TGIF #122: April 3, 2026
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email I made another appearance on the Telco in 20 podcast, where we talked about hundreds of billions of HyperCAPEX spend and asked what ever happened to the…
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2020 Platformonomics Blog Retrospective
Previous annual retrospectives: 2019 This is presumably my last post of the year. I managed 15 posts this year (not including this one), of which three were Cloud City Meetup event updates. The other 12 substantive posts just top last year’s 11 posts. Word count crept up by 670 words to 12,773 words (sorry!). Traffic…
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The DOJ Play at Home Game
While last year’s Platformonomics Holiday Gift Guide brought seasonal joy to vast swathes of humanity, this year’s holiday recommendation has a very specific audience: Googlers. To my friends at Google: You did a great job over the years keeping your email boring and mostly devoid of colorful yet easily cherrypicked soundbites. But your antitrust reckoning…
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Reminder: Bob Muglia joins the Cloud City Virtual Meetup this Wednesday (December 9) at noon Pacific Time
We’re going to have a great discussion with Bob Muglia, the former CEO of Snowflake. Bob has strong opinions about the Modern Data Stack: how it will evolve, who matters (and who doesn’t), and where to place your bets. And because it is on Zoom, you can tune in from anywhere in the world. Register…
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Slackforce and the Beginning of the End of SaaS Sprawl
“Combining Slack with Salesforce Customer 360 will be transformative for customers and the industry. The combination will create the operating system for the new way to work, uniquely enabling companies to grow and succeed in the all-digital world.” (link – has the “operating system for x” analogy/strategy ever worked?) “We’re going to help them to…
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Cloud City Virtual Meetup: Bob Muglia and the Modern Data Stack (December 9)
Our next installment of the Cloud City Virtual Meetup is at noon Pacific Time on December 9th with Bob Muglia, who will share his perspectives on the evolution of the Modern Data Stack. Register Here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FOK8hozJToi_FrjTYoOBrg Join the Meetup: https://www.cloudcitymeetup.com/ Details Bob is an experienced and hands-on technology executive who has been intimately involved in…