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Why Uber and Airbnb Win by Owning Nothing

Huslers0:58

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You know, the biggest car company in the world doesn't own any cars. That's Uber.

You The biggest lodgings company in the world doesn't own any property. That's Airbnb.

Piggy back on Ryionaire, which for American listeners is a bit like Spirit Air. Okay, it's a very ultra lowcost carrier. And this is how you do it. You have a luxury airline which was totally benile in the air, but then that's only an hour and a half anyway in Europe. Okay?

So you'd buy a country house near Stanstead airport and it would cost you £600 return to go to let's say Madrid and you turn up at the country house, park your car, there'd be a party going on like something out of Eyes Wide Shut or you know the beach party in the the Wolf of Wall Street. There'd be fine wines and Belgian chocolates and then you'd be driven to your Ryan airplane. Cost of flight £17.95. Okay. And then you'd be kind of met at the other end.

So in other words, you take a totally banal experience in the air, but you absolutely make the ground experience fant (in parenthesis) of something that's wonderful.