Business Models

In 2025, Stripe processed $1.9 trillion in total payment volume, a figure that works out to roughly 1.6% of global GDP (Stripe newsroom). That…

Organisation established to harness the power of the software development community. Creating an open-source community-powered browser good enough to steal a huge share of…

Most companies that exploded during the pandemic collapsed when it ended. Zoom didn’t. The pandemic video tool now pulls in about $4.869 billion a…

GitHub is the world’s largest software development platform that is used by big-name companies as well as individuals in order to develop and share…

The video gaming industry is a huge business – for the past 10 years, it has made more money than both Hollywood and the…

A business can easily increase their reach by creating an ecommerce store that either reflects its physical stores or acts as the primary store.…

Unlike tangible items, software can only be used for what it is programmed to do. Unlike in the physical space where you can use…

Vimeo was the first platform to bring HD video to the web. For years, it served as the quality-first alternative to YouTube. Filmmakers, educators,…

Google Maps and Waze are both owned by the same parent company. Both offer turn-by-turn navigation and real-time traffic data, which are central to…

While there are a lot of e-commerce sites for companies and mass manufacturers to sell on, there are only a countable few that cater…

Let’s talk about the use of cause marketing so well that a ‘profitable’ business model is built around it. Intrigued? Imagine a company that…

In 2019, WeWork was the world’s second most valuable startup. By late 2023, it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with $18.7 billion in…

It all began in 2013 when Stewart Butterfield went on to design an online game named Glitch. While working, he realized that his team…

Most people know Udemy as the place to buy a coding course for a few dollars. Almost nobody knows the company behind it spent…

The name of the game is “Many hands make light work”. There are a lot of examples which support this old maxim. Take Reddit…

IKEA is known as that Furniture store where you get economical furniture for all your needs. And the IKEA Business Model reaches your home…

Money is a big deal, right? Be it to sustain your education, or to support a non-profit organization, or to aid a cancer patient,…

One day you open your fitness app and learn it’s dying. The next day, you learn it’s perfectly fine. On 1 October 2026, the…

Shawarma, kebabs, pizza, doughnuts. Whatever you crave, someone brings it to your door within the hour. No platform delivers more of it than Uber…

You know Patreon as the platform behind creator memberships. In 2026, how does Patreon work when that model is under real pressure? Apple is…

Admit it. You have pondered over this question while casually searching for some cat videos. Then you eventually gave yourself the “Hey, these guys…

Android still powers about three out of every four smartphones sold worldwide. But in Q2 2026, its global share slipped to roughly 75%, down…

In March 2026, Epic did something it hadn’t done since Fortnite launched in 2017. It raised the price of V-Bucks, and its explanation was…

Back in 2007, Netflix made cable look like a relic and hooked you on on-demand video. Then Hulu arrived, and for years the script…