Most successful ones are the product of specific circumstances and even chance, reckons Peter Evans of CGE.

法国通用电气公司的皮特·埃文斯回想，其实成功的平台都是某些特定环境和均等机会下的产物。

In late 2015 the 44 platform firms based in Silicon Valley alone boasted a combined market capitalisation of $2.2 trillion, according to the Centre for Global Enterprise (CGE) , a think-tank.

根据全球企业中心智库表示，2015年中仅凭44家硅谷的平台公司就霸踞了2.2万亿美金的资本市场。