Hi Reader, If you look at the most flourishing businesses in the last 8 to 10 years, there's a pattern that's hard to ignore. Amazon. Uber. Facebook. Google. They are all platform companies. Yes, individual companies are growing. But if you go deeper — really look at who is driving outsized growth — it's the platform businesses that are dominating. And here's what's interesting for us as architects: Financial services, one of the largest industries in the world, has been built on a...