Business & revenue models · Core

Platform business model

Also called: platform model

ELI5

A business that helps others interact or build on top of it.

Used in conversation

“The platform business model depends on rules as much as technology.”

Definition

A model creating value by enabling interactions, transactions or complements across participants.

Here “Platform business model” means: A model creating value by enabling interactions, transactions or complements across participants.

Pitch context

You will see “Platform business model” in strategy decks, market analyses, business plans and planning workshops when the discussion reaches business & revenue models.

Why it matters: It helps a reader interpret business & revenue models without confusing the measure, decision, role or evidence being discussed.

Sources & evidence · 5

Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.