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Telling platform stories that land
Start at the first move in "Telling platform stories that land" and carry it through to the proof.
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STAR keeps you structured, but the default STAR fails platform candidates because it buries the part a founding-platform round listens for: the ambiguity you walked into and the scope you defined. Lead with that, then quantify the result in platform terms.
A data scientist's Result is usually the project: "the dashboard shipped." A platform engineer's Result is the foundation: "ingestion went from flaky cron jobs to a self-serve asset graph 30 engineers now use without paging me." Aim for the second.