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How the sharing economy is a misnomer - Alison Griswold (Tech Journalist)

Getting there

English - September 22, 2020 05:00 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MB
Entrepreneurship Business Technology cities electric scooters electric vehicles mobility mobility as a service scooters shared mobiltiy sharing economy smart cities transportation Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: You can set small incentives in order to change mobility behaviour – René Braun
Next Episode: What a city needs in order to plan transport effectively - Stéphanie Priou (Ubiquity)

Working in mobility can skew one's ability to judge industry press coverage as either good PR & marketing, good journalism, or both. Excitement about new tech needs to be tempered with taking an objective look at what this new tech brings. Alison is just the person to get that job done, Her commitment to being a fair and truthful tech journalist shines in both this interview, but more importantly, what she has written. 

In this episode we talk about:

Uber's track record with the pressWhat the sharing economy actually isWhy lots of press coverage for the industry is warranted

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Relevant links:

Alison's newsletter on the sharing economy

SOM Thinkers: The Future of Transportation

What Uber should do now

Music in this episode:
"Algorithms" and "Wide Eyes" by Chad Crouch from soundofpicture.com 

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