# kaal:claim:3808859-012

**Claim.** Platform businesses compound their advantage in technology infrastructure: platform data improves the platform's own technology, improved technology improves services, and better services generate still more data, creating a permanent learning and optimization environment.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Source quote.**

> The feedback effects between data generation and technology optimization and vice versa creates a permanent learning and optimization environment for platform businesses.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralization – Why We Need Technology Infrastructure Upgrades* (2021), III.1 Platform Business Proliferation, page 20

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization – Why We Need Technology Infrastructure Upgrades (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808859

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**Topics.** institutional-design

**Keywords.** platform-business, data-feedback-loop, network-effects, technology-infrastructure

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