All articles from Mike Werner

Mike spent 35 years navigating multiple platform transitions at Microsoft and Red Hat understanding what platforms absorb versus what they partner with, from the inside. He watched the same pattern repeat: a company builds a product that looks like a feature to the platform. Revenue is healthy. Then the platform ships it natively. The company has six months to react and usually doesn't. The same pattern is now playing out in the AI economy, only faster, broader, and with more capital at risk. Mike's platform transition pattern recognition is the intelligence layer that no VC platform team currently has access to. His work at the intersection of platform strategy and partner ecosystem development forms the foundation of AGG's Intelligence Framework and the Expert in Residence (EIR) network's deployment model.