Airbnb, the coolest lingo for startup descriptions on AngelList
Skift Take
Sharing economy is the new new thing and companies large and small that unlock the value of underutilized assets using digital platforms will help redefine large swathes of industries across the spectrum.
That Airbnb is the poster-child of the sharing economy — or collaborative consumption if you want to be hipper — is now a given, so much so that a fuddy-duddy business magazine like Forbes put the company and its CEO Brian Chesky on its latest cover.
But before a company becomes the zeitgeist in the larger pop culture, it has to pass through a rather delicate phase, where other early stage
