Platform Strategy That Ships: 90-Day Bets, Kill Criteria, and the Only AI That Mattered

TL;DR: Across separate 90-day cycles (2018, 2023, 2025), we shipped platform bets that hit real adoption in 90 days (telemetry: ~20 DAU / ~150 MAU; Backstage IDP: ~30 DAU / ~500 MAU) and a CI bet that