Opening Data and Tools Is the Most Critical Step for Ecosystems
Damien Tampling · The Secrets to Building a Global Platform and Ecosystem | Xero Global CSO Damien Tampling · Mar 28, 2023 · at 18:16
Damien Tampling, Global Chief Strategy Officer at Xero, discusses the core operational principles for building scalable platform ecosystems at SaaStr.
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“If there was one in the six things that I've mentioned that's the most important for an ecosystem, it's making more of what you offer available. It's making the tools. It's opening up data. It's allowing people to build on you and with you That kind of evangelizes that ecosystem and has other people actually out there building and supporting your product beyond the walls of the people that you control in your business.”
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