Rethink: Is friction the oxygen of community?
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Entrepreneur Ivo Gormley on the power of dependence
Dear Rethinkers, In the spring of 2010, I had a conversation with entrepreneur Ivo Gormley that got me thinking differently about the design of communities. It was in the early days of the so-called ‘sharing economy’ and I was knee-deep in a book tour for my first book, What’s Mine is Yours. Platforms such as Airbnb, Etsy and Kickstarter that matched an ‘I need’ with a ‘you have’ were just starting to really take off. I’d been fortunate to meet entrepreneurs with all kinds of ideas to use platforms to unlock value in new ways, but Ivo immediately struck me as different. His idea was called…
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