What Can Fashion Learn from the Sharing Economy? (Joe Gebbia) | BoF VOICES

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The Business of Fashion

Fashion & Beauty, Business, Arts

4.6 • 770 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Speaking at #BoFVOICES, Joe Gebbia explained his duct tape philosophy on innovation and how the sharing economy can power philanthropy for the 21st century.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion, and welcome to the
0:07.0	B-OF podcast. Voices is the most stimulating gathering of fashion industry leaders on the planet.
0:13.0	What makes voices different is that we mix our industry with fascinating people from other sectors,
0:19.0	from the worlds of economics, activism, health and wellness,
0:22.4	medicine, film, philanthropy, technology, media, and so many more. Fashion doesn't live in a bubble
0:28.8	and nor should it. This is one of the sessions from our 2017 gathering. Silicon Valley for years now
0:36.2	has been a buzz about something called the sharing economy,
0:39.8	an economy that's been pioneered by startups like Uber and Airbnb.
0:45.1	But how could the sharing economy apply to the fashion industry?
0:48.7	And what can we learn about the potential of the sharing economy?
0:52.1	To answer this question, I invited Joe Jebiyah,
0:55.6	co-founder and chief product officer at Airbnb
0:59.0	to talk to us about the sharing economy
1:01.4	and the lessons he's learned along the way.
1:03.6	He uses a really interesting analogy of duct tape,
1:06.7	which I'll let him explain to you.
1:09.0	So here's Joe Jebia at Voices 2017,
1:12.4	what fashion can learn from the sharing economy.
1:16.5	Take a look at this.
1:18.6	This is a role of duct tape.
1:22.8	It's something that you can say we all take for granted.
1:26.3	There you go.
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