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# What does your platform look like?
- URL: https://www.philsimon.com/what-does-your-platform-look-like/
- Published: 2012-02-08T10:59:12.000Z
- Updated: 2025-12-30T08:19:49.000Z
- Description: Here's a simple visual of my own.
- Author: Phil Simon
- Tags: Platforms, Strategy, The Age of the Platform

![platform](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8f/b5/8fb5e321-49a6-4cf5-8a28-c6f6d5417e54/content/images/2025/05/platform-74.jpg)

In the book, I write about how I changed my business in 2008 from a very concentrated one into one with many different sources of revenue. I didn't put the visual above in the book, but maybe I should have.

What does your platform look like? What are the consequences if you don't know?