About Me

I’m Charles Fitzgerald and this is my blog. I write infrequent, self-referential, overly parenthetical and verbose posts mostly for my own amusement. Stylistically, think a longform version of Twitter.

I am an active angel investor, advisor, mentor, and board member.

I am the Managing Director of Platformonomics, LLC, which provides strategy consulting services to a select number of companies.

I am a co-instigator of the Cloud City Tech Meetup.

You can contact me at blog [at] platformonomics.com

Recurring Themes

Antitrust Incoherence

Bronny’s Boffo Bid

CAPEX

EU Insanity

Going Nuclear: Big Tech’s Nuclear Plans | Cloud Reactor Tracker

Never Take a Dependency on Elon Musk

Not Available in Europe

Software Migration Alerts for Private Equity-Owned Companies

Telco Misadventures

Online Presence

AngeList – don’t miss my interest in Animal Feed

LinkedIn

SeekingAlpha – I republish some blog posts about public companies here

StockTwits – I republish some blog posts about public companies here.

Twitter:

@charlesfitz – personal account, includes blog post notifications

@platformonomics – blog post notifications (not up to date)

Past Affiliations

The Johns Hopkins University – BA in Economics

Microsoft Corporation – amongst other things, worked on Flight Simulator, Windows 95, Internet Explorer 3 and 4, the MSJVM, Microsoft .NET and was General Manager of Platform Strategy.

pi Corporation – acquired by EMC Corporation and integrated with Mozy, Inc.

Mozy, Inc. – vice president, product management

VMware – helped launch Cloud Foundry and build a polyglot developer relations organization

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