I’m Charles Fitzgerald and this is my blog. I write infrequent, self-referential, overly parenthetical and verbose posts mostly for my own amusement. Stylistically, think a longform version of Twitter. Short-form/old school Twitter content mostly shows up in my weekly Platformonomics TGIF newsletter.
I am an active angel investor, advisor, mentor, and board member.
I am the Managing Director of Platformonomics, LLC, which provides strategy consulting services to a select number of companies.
I am a co-instigator of the Cloud City Tech Meetup (on hiatus).
You can contact me at blog [at] platformonomics.com
Recurring Themes
The Enduring Cultural Legacy of the Windows Entertainment Pack
Going Nuclear: Big Tech’s Nuclear Plans | Cloud Reactor Tracker
Never Take a Dependency on Elon Musk
Software Migration Alerts for Private Equity-Owned Companies
Online Presence
Twitter: @charlesfitz – personal account, includes blog post notifications
Past Affiliations
The Johns Hopkins University – BA in Economics
Microsoft Corporation – amongst other things, worked on Flight Simulator, Windows 95, Internet Explorer 3 and 4, the MSJVM, Microsoft .NET and was General Manager of Platform Strategy.
pi Corporation – acquired by EMC Corporation and integrated with Mozy, Inc.
Mozy, Inc. – vice president, product management
VMware – helped launch Cloud Foundry and build a polyglot developer relations organization