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: Médecins du Monde UK and The Bronx Community Charter School.
“People are normally trustworthy and generous, and the Internet
brings the good out far more than the bad. That’s the big
observation from my day job, customer service, for fifteen years.
We’re seeing an explosion of modest businesses where people help
each other out via the Net, and What’s Mine is Yours tells you
what’s 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, What’s 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
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