I am kicking off a newsletter on substack.com titled Platform Professional. This will be a weekly focused on all dimension of professional platform managers--- platform strategy, platform product managers, platform engineering, platform ecosystem managers, platform data managers and platform regulation/compliance.

I'll look at this both from the perspective of people looking to advance their career as well as from companies seeking to deepen their platform bench and grow platform leaders. I have been looking closely at the talent issues associated with the platform economy for over 18 months so have a lot of great insights to share. I will not cover freelancers or other gig workers as these are addressed well by many others.

If you have ideas of what you would like to see covered let me know. I'd love your suggestions.

At 26x Forward Sales, Salesforce Overpays For Slack By acquiring Slack’s over 130,000 paid customers, Salesforce adds to its enterprise applications portfolio in its competition with Microsoft. As CNBC reported Microsoft and Salesforce face off in

• Customer relationship management.Salesforce is way ahead of Microsoft;

• Business networking. Microsoft won the acquisition battle for LinkedIn;

• Data visualization. Salesforce acquired Tableau last year to take on Microsoft’s Power BI; and

• Productivity software. Salesforce lags — despite its 2016 Quip acquisition — behind Microsoft’s Office suite, Google and others.

👀 University of Surrey is hiring a Teaching Fellow / Senior Teaching Fellow in Digital Entrepreneurship. Closing Date: Monday 30 November 2020. Interview Date: Friday 11 December 2020 👇👇👇 https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?id=8550&forced=1

😮Facebook’s new Oversight Board is a wild new experiment in platform governance .. "It’ll look like the US Supreme Court — with four times as many “justices” and serving more than 10 times as many “citizens.” Check it out here