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The Rise Of The Sharing Economy

Interview: Jeremiah Owyang, Crowd Companies

By Nick Aster
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TriplePundit attended Sustainable Brands 2014 in San Diego this month. These videos are part of our coverage. Find the rest here.

Jeremiah Owyang is one of the most interesting people I had a chance to meet at last week's Sustainable Brands conference.  An analyst by trade, Jeremiah now runs a network called Crowd Companies who propose to "bring empowered people and resilient brands together to collaborate for Shared Value."   Specifically, this shared value springs from  embracing the "collaborative economy" -  a meta term for business models built on shared ownership and access.  It's a somewhat more inclusive description of most of what we talk about when we talk about the sharing economy.

In this quick interview, I asked Jeremiah to talk about the collaborative economy - why it's important, why it's both a threat and an opportunity for traditional companies, and what it has to do with sustainability.

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Nick Aster is the founder of TriplePundit. Prior to launching 3p, Nick worked for Mother Jones magazine, successfully re-launching the magazine's online presence. He worked for TreeHugger.com, managing the technical side of the publication for 3 years, and has also been an active consultant for individuals and companies entering the world of micro-publishing. He also worked for Gawker Media and Moreover Technologies in the early days of blogging. Nick holds an MBA in sustainable management from the Presidio School of Management and graduated with a BA in History from Washington University in St. Louis.

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