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The $99 Billion Idea: How Uber and Airbnb Won

Graham Watson

6th February 2017

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Fantastic Bloomberg piece - of some length - about the rise of Uber and Airbnb and their regulatory travails - this looks at the emergence of the so-called 'gig economy' and the extent to which these increasingly ubiquitous companies really did break the mould. The article comes from Brad Stone who has a new book out on the creative destruction of the digital upstarts.

The $99 Billion Idea: How Uber and Airbnb Won
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Graham Watson

Graham Watson has taught Economics for over twenty years. He contributes to Tutor2U, reads voraciously and is interested in all aspects of Teaching and Learning.

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