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Philippe MEDA

Since 2007, Philippe has collaborated with hundreds of startups and advised numerous multinational corporations on disruptive innovation strategies. He also teaches MBA courses in Europe and Shanghai.

What is a platform? Map edition

What is a platform? Map edition

Last June, I was pointing out how being able to seamlessly use the iPhone as a Mac webcam was speaking volumes about how Apple is not a product company, but a fully integrated hardware and software platform. I didn't mean to make a recurring theme of this "

Google kills Stadia; speaks about how incumbent it is, and maybe not a platform anymore

Google kills Stadia; speaks about how incumbent it is, and maybe not a platform anymore

Yesterday, Google killed Stadia, their game streaming project. A message about Stadia and our long term streaming strategyWe’ve made the difficult decision to begin winding down our Stadia streaming service.GooglePhil Harrison The idea of game streaming is neat. In principle, with a fast-enough internet connection, you don'

What is the age of the captain?

What is the age of the captain?

In 2018, a 5th grader mathematics problem given in a school in China took some part of the internet by storm. The problem was as follows: If a ship had 26 sheep and 10 goats onboard, how old is the ship's captain? You might want to pause on

Wide vs Deep, the margin strategy of innovators

Wide vs Deep, the margin strategy of innovators

For years, Apple has been vastly underrated in many sectors, such as mobile or games, and now as an ad or financial service company. Mostly the reason is that Apple until it's late in the game, doesn't game a significant market share. Their focus is never

Siemens is digesting, rebranding, and moving in, to a no-nonsense Industrial Metaverse

Siemens is digesting, rebranding, and moving in, to a no-nonsense Industrial Metaverse

Last July, Siemens unveiled their new business accelerator dedicated to the metaverse. And before you start running away, thinking they are selling snake oil – as everyone pretty much when using the M word – think again. While Siemens CEO Roland Busch half-heartedly evokes the consumer metaverse "revolution," he then

Digital? It's not only pizza-delivery!

Digital? It's not only pizza-delivery!

Most of the tech and digital news this year has been depressing, if you ask me. Between Andreessen Horowitz investing upward of $350 million in the new Adam Neumann grift or Marc Zuckerberg gambling the future of Meta on us wearing cumbersome 3D helmets, the little world of digital tech