Whats Mine Is Yours

People are normally trustworthy and generous, and the Internet brings the good out far more than the bad. Thats the big observation from my day job, customer service, for fifteen years. Were seeing an explosion of modest businesses where people help each other out via the Net, and Whats Mine is Yours tells you whats going on, and inspires more of the same. Craig Newmark, Founder of Craigslist What can the next wave of collaborative marketplaces look like? Botsman and Rogers answer this question in a highly readable and persuasive way. Anyone interested in the business opportunities and social power of collaboration should consider reading this book. Tony Hsieh, author of Delivering Happiness and CEO of Zappos.com, Inc. After listening to a thousand tirades against the excesses and waste of consumer society, Whats Mine Is Yours offers us something genuinely new and invigorating: a way out. Anyone interested in the emerging economics of collaboration will want to read this profoundly hopeful book. Steven Johnson, author of The Invention of Air and The Ghost Map. At a moment of general gloom, Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers have offered a convincing, charming and in every sense collaborative account of how the new networks that have disrupted our lives are also likely to alter them, and entirely for our good. They offer not just a prescription for parts of our ailing economy, but a new vision of what consumerism can be: not just a form of slavery to objects, but a thing in itself positive, progressive and pleasure-giving. Adam Gopnik, author of Paris to the Moon and Through the Children's Gate "Much of what we most value is created with other people, through relationships. Friendship, care, love, recognition are not delivered to us in a package. That's why What's Mine Is Yours charting Collaborative Consumption is such a vital guide to how we can live more successfully. " - Charles Leadbeater, author of We-Think

Rachel writes, consults, and speaks on the power of collaboration and sharing, and on how it can transform the way we live. She received her BFA (Honors) from the University of Oxford, and undertook her postgraduate studies at Harvard University. She has consulted to businesses around the world on brand and innovation strategy and is a former director at the William J. Clinton Foundation. Roo is a serial entrepreneur with five successful startups currently in the marketplace. He is currently the director of Redscout Ventures. Roo has a BA from Columbia College and a Masters in Economics from University College London. Roo sits on the board of two nonprofits: Mdecins du Monde UK and The Bronx Community Charter School.