State of Play: The Sharing Economy

The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway

Vox Media Podcast Network

Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Scott discusses how Google Career Certificates could unbundle higher education. He’s excited, to say the least. Then, Arun Sundararajan, a professor of entrepreneurship and professor of technology, operations and statistics at NYU’s Stern School of Business, breaks down how the pandemic will accelerate the shift to platform-based businesses. He also explains why California’s AB5 law isn’t the right solution for Uber and Lyft drivers. Arun is the award-winning author of “The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism.” Follow Arun on Twitter @digitalarun. Office Hours: why Netflix should own its distribution, the brand era is dead, and balancing your time between teaching and running a business. Please take our quick survey to tell us how we can improve The Prof G Show: https://forms.gle/xVRfqCKrrNr9xzor5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Episode 25. There are 25 profits according to the Quran.
0:03.5	An official roster of a mutually-based protein has 25 players.
0:07.2	Technically, you should be having a quarter-life crisis if you want.
0:10.8	Advice on how to have a full-blown midlife crisis.
0:13.4	Which I'm in the midst of, for the goodness it's gonna end in about 50, 60 years.
0:17.6	My girlfriend keeps saying that my midlife crisis is getting on the way of our relationship.
0:22.2	What does she know? She's only 18.
0:24.3	Make me feel 54 again.
0:26.5	Go, go, go!
0:30.0	Welcome to the 25th episode of The Prof. G Show.
0:40.4	In today's episode we speak with my colleague, Arun Sundarajan.
0:43.4	Arun is a professor of entrepreneurship and technology operations and statistics at NYU Stern.
0:49.8	He's also the award-winning author of the sharing economy, the end of employment and the rise
0:53.9	of crowd-based capitalism.
0:56.2	Arun gives us the state of play of the sharing economy and gig workers.
0:59.5	Okay, what's happening?
1:00.8	Start-up in Big Tech are trying or are going to debundle education.
1:05.1	Google is entering higher ed by offering BA equivalent degrees.
1:09.7	Google career certificates, which is essentially micro certification for $300 over a six-month
1:16.1	period.
1:17.1	Okay, this is just so excited.
1:19.5	I can't tell you I'm excited.
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