Horizontal Platform
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Sankar: Horizontal platforms are loved by VCs but pose horrible GTM challenges
“We were a horizontal platform, which was great. You know, VCs love it. It's actually a horrible go-to-market problem because you know, where do you start? It's about repeatability, right?”
Sridhar: Horizontal plug-and-play AI agent platforms are premature
“I feel like it's still early days for us, like to try to platformatize or like try to build these, oh, there are these five horizontal pieces. And you can plug and play and build your own agent. My personal opinion is we are not there yet. In order to build a …”
Turck: Venture capitalists are skeptical of early horizontal platform startups
“I find that VCs are quite skeptical of companies building horizontal from day zero.”
Tavel: Horizontal platforms are forced into lowest-common-denominator products
“The hard thing about being a horizontal platform like an eBay is that you're, you have to try to be everything for everyone. You know, and what that forces is this kind of lowest common denominator product.”
Howie Liu: Horizontal platforms create durable long-term advantages and eliminate market-size risk
“If you're really good at holding this pace and just having this deliberate focus on being a horizontal platform and trying to serve this massively diverse, you know, total addressable market. Then I think in the longterm you have more durable advantages. I thi…”
Liu: Horizontal platforms create more durable long-term advantages
“If you're really good at holding this pace and just having this deliberate focus on being a horizontal platform and trying to serve this massively diverse, you know, total addressable market, then I think in the long term, you have more durable advantages. I t…”