In technology circles, Sean Parker needs no introduction. He's the Managing Partner at Founders Fund, and co-founded category defining companies like Napster, Plaxo, and Causes.

Planning For Product Platforms is a worthwhile read for product managers, engineers, and business development teams either working for "Platform" Software companies, or building value atop Consumer or B2B Software Platforms.

When I joined Facebook in 2012, "culture" wasn't a topic every company cared about. Facebook's was pretty unique at the time.

Email has been declared dead more times than I can recall. At various points in time, I probably declared it dead, too. But it isn't dead. It's more alive than ever.

As my colleague Scott Brinker recently pointed out, the essence of the "no code" trend is "software that empowers general business users to create things that previously only specialists could produce."

A year ago, Forbes posed this question: API Economy: Is It The Next Big Thing?