The case studies where they drilled down into the early days of many of these companies was pretty neat. I had no idea, for example, that Airbnb used to have a bot that e-mailed posters on Craigslist to build up their inventory.
Sometimes the book did feel like an ad for the authors' consulting company, however. There also seemed to be some extra narratives where they weren't always warranted; a halo effect after the fact makes it easy to say one thing led to success while another led to failure, but I doubted sometimes that things could be boiled down to something so simple.
Still, platform companies can have large moats, and so they are worth thinking about for investors. This is a decent book on the topic.
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