real utopias

The other night, I had the opportunity to see Rachel Botsman, co-author of What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumptionand prominent sharing economy innovator, speak for Let’s Collaborate NYC on how the socioeconomic phenomenon is transforming the way we live, work, and consume. She’s spoken on TED before, but I thought that this fireside chat with Wrede Petersmeyer of Airbnb offered a more intimate setting to clarify some points about collaborative consumption, not to mention it was pretty neat to sit just a few feet in front of a thought leader I admire. At the end, Katie Bolin of Spark Capital also led a startup pitch session, featuring local NYC early-stage startups operating within the space: Farmigo, PicSell, Sailo,SpareHire, Eleven James, and SpareChair. Incredibly cool to see some local companies participate in this larger global movement.