Airbnb Won't Enter Car-Sharing Market, Seeking Strategic Friendships Instead
Airbnb will capitalize on its success by expanding into more aspects of travel, founder Joe Gebbia said today in London at LeWeb, but it will work with car-sharing companies to build the collaborative economy rather than competing with them.
Airbnb will capitalize on its success by expanding into more aspects of travel, founder Joe Gebbia said today in London at LeWeb, but it will work with car-sharing companies to build the collaborative economy rather than competing with them.
As startups have cropped up promising to be “the Airbnb of” some other sector — parking, for example — tech industry watchers have begun to wonder what sectors besides accommodations. With car-sharing the second-most developed vertical for sharing, it has seemed a likely candidate.
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