21st CenturyThe Age of Collaborative Consumption

Collaborative consumption:

Less ownership, more sharing—of goods,

services, skills, space, and time.

300,000 rooms were made available to rent globally via

Airbnb in five years of development

By 2020, there will be 31 million members of carsharing

programs worldwide

On average, four to five new coworking spaces open

every single day

1,000 new TaskRabbits are added each month

In 2012, 2.7 billion dollars were raised via crowdfunding

in the United States

“People sharing idle time, their skills, or their

knowledge… it is truly a movement in the

global economy.”

Brian Chesky,

Cofounder & CEO, Airbnb

“I think we will continue to see a rise in collaborative

consumption and a growing awareness for how these

new economic models save people money, are more

sustainable and efficient.”

Scott Griffith, CEO of Zipcar

“I want to live in a world where we're

all producers, where we are each

contributing value.”

Dale Dougherty,

Founder of Maker Faire

“The Internet is removing the middleman, so that

anyone from a T-shirt designer to a knitter can make a

living selling peer-to-peer. And the ubiquitous force

of this peer-to-peer revolution means that sharing is

happening at phenomenal rates.”

Rachel Botsman, Co-author of What’s Mine

Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption

“It is the long history of humankind (and

animal kind, too) those who learned to

collaborate and improvise most effectively

have prevailed.”

Charles Darwin, Naturalist

“In an era when families are scattered and we may

not know the people down the street, sharing

things — even with strangers we've just met online

— allows us to make meaningful connections.”

Bryan Walsh, TIME Magazine

“It empowers people to tap into skills and talent that

they have but haven't found opportunities to make

money from before. It empowers people to be in

control of their jobs and their lives. It empowers

people to make all new kinds of connections that

are often quite tricky to make.”

Rachel Botsman

“...sharing is to ownership what the

iPod is to the eight-track, what the solar

panel is to the coal mine. Sharing is clean,

crisp, urbane, postmodern; owning is dull,

selfish, timid, backward.”

Mark Levine, The New York Times

“Being ‘socially connected’ is no longer just about

having a lot of people to share your news with;

these days, it’s about having a lot of people to

share your stuff with — either for free or at a

fraction of the market fee. It’s about collaborative

consumption.”

Lada Gorlenko, Fast.Co Design

“The 20th century was about hyper-

consumption, but the 21st century will be

defined by collaborative consumption.”

Rachel Botsman