These distinctions makes a huge difference on TC so it’s good to keep in my when job hunting. Secondary tech - Tech work here doesn’t directly generate revenue, just facilitates or improves the main stream of revenue, like CostCo Product tech - the company has one or two main products and not much else. Intuit, Robinhood, Duolingo Platform tech - the company has a spread of products which improve each other. Either directly (like AWS) or via customer retention (like most airlines) Tc: $270k
Intuit is a great example of platform
They have 2.1 products, they’re not a platform. I worked there, they desperately want to be a platform but aren’t yet
Thanks for sharing that, I always thought otherwise. What is 2.1 products? I’m curious bcos I am trying for a job in intuit.
Can you explain a bit more about why airlines are platform tech instead of secondary tech?
It’s an ecosystem that feed off each other. Apps, websites, ticket booths, credit accounts, the airplane itself etc etc etc that all work together. They don’t just “fly an airplane”, that’s like 5% of the actual work of running an airline
Right but the main source of revenue derives from flying people from one place to another. Yes, an airline who doesn't have a tech presence today (website, Mobile app, etc) would quickly fade into irrelevance but I'm still lumping in airlines with secondary tech. Plus Look at how old the SABRE system is. I doubt AWS keeps that kind of legacy tech around.
So take for example Cisco, and Palo Alto. The fact that they kind of force you into buying an ecosystem rather than a specific point-product makes them platform as well?
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