What do
Blablacar,
LaFourchette,
AirBnB,
Uber,
Android,
Kindle,
Facebook,
Wikipedia, (…) have in common? They are prototypal examples of “
multi-sided platforms” (MSPs), in a sense that, originally defined by economists, has become widely acknowledged, especially since Jean Tirole, who pioneered research in this domain, was awarded the
Nobel Prize in economics, in 2014.