Matterport: Cool Product, Funky Business
Matterport creates awe-inspiring immersive 3D experiences in VR but struggles to hone in on the right business.
Infrastructure
Matterport: Creating a Real Estate VR Platform
Matterport provides a platform to transform real estate into virtual reality experiences, consumable both in an internet browser and a virtual reality headset.
Google X: Leveraging data and algorithms for self-driving cars
Is Google X going to win in the self-driving car space? Are Waze and Google Maps their secret weapons? How does Google X's Waymo project leverage the power of data and analytics?
Google Maps – the most expansive data machine
Over the years Google Maps have collected Billion of bytes of data to map the entire world. Increasing penetration of GPS-enabled smartphone has fueled Google’s appetite for data even further and it is putting all that data to good use.
OpenDoor: applying big data to home selling
Using the power of data analytics, OpenDoor will offer you a price for your house in under 24 hours
Waze: “Help[ing] people create local driving communities that work together to improve the quality of everyone’s daily driving”
The mission statement of Waze, founded in Israel in 2009, is to “help people create local driving communities that work together to improve the quality of everyone's daily driving”. By updating maps in real time with crowdsourced information from drivers, Waze provides its users with “the best route, every day, with real-time help from other drivers”.
OYO rooms: You stay in hotel “On Your Own” terms
OYO rooms: pioneering comfort stay at an affordable price
LiquidSpace and the Platformization of Office Rentals
A door down from WeWork, there is LiquidSpace. Both companies are pursuing a modern approach to the office space marketplace, but LiquidSpace has stayed truer to the rules of platform strategy.
Zillow: Who Gets the Value?
Zillow, the property-sale platform, exists in between an online and physical world.
Zillow: The Platform for Homes
The Zillow recipe for platform success: Give away data and tools, sell ads and services, buy up competitors and platform-enhancing technologies.