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Platformonomics TGIF #123: April 10, 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 News Anthropic: A $3 Trillion IPO? Fractional CEO, teller of big tales, and stickler for securities law Elon Musk is floating a 100 times revenue multiple for…
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Enter The Matrix: Microsoft’s Reorg
The new super-matrixed structure doubles down on “integrated innovation”, a model that has historically been tantalizingly just out of grasp from an execution standpoint. The new theory is shorter product cycles will mitigate failures of alignment across teams. The pendulum swings to functional away from divisions that had clear customer focus and segmentation (ironically, Steven…
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Iceland and Bitcoin: A Cryptocurrency Cascade
It isn’t just me advocating Iceland adopt Bitcoin – we’re on the verge of a veritable movement here. But I can’t imagine they’re the only place thinking about it…
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A Cretaceous Checkpoint
Image via Flickr In our last installment of doing tomorrow’s technological paleontology today, I laid out my case for why IBM’s future looks different than the last decade because financial engineering isn’t the kind of engineering necessary to make the transition to the cloud. For my efforts, I got a lot of financially-oriented pushback that…
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Press Releases We’d Like to See: Iceland Embraces the Bitcoin Economy
Continuing our series of monetary-themed press releases we’d like to see (but probably won’t): Iceland Embraces the Bitcoin EconomyUnveils comprehensive program for 21st century financial leadership REYKJAVIK, Iceland — May 1, 2013 — The Republic of Iceland today announced a comprehensive program to make Iceland the leading nation state in the emerging Bitcoin economy. “Bitcoin…
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Time for Some New Adventures
Image via Flickr After a great two-and-a-half years at VMware, I am casting off for new adventures. At VMware, we dramatically changed the platform-as-a-service landscape with Cloud Foundry. You just don’t hear people talking any more about a single language or framework dominating the cloud. And the public cloud/private cloud debate is not question…