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How Superapps Really Emerge: What 63,000 Platforms Revealed About Innovation, Power and Policy
Superapps did not simply appear through clever design or flashy branding. Behind every WeChat, Grab, or Rappi sits a long chain of strategic decisions, financial bets, regulatory tensions, and national conditions that either unlock or restrict growth. I wanted to understand this journey at scale. Not through anecdotal stories or theoretical claims, but through evidence. So I carried out a mixed methods study that combined a global case analysis with a dataset of more than 63,

Saad Ghazal
Nov 26, 20254 min read
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