2015: The Year of the Crowd

LeWeb | Dec 2014 | Jeremiah Owyang | @jowyang

The Collaborative Economy impacts all areas of society

The movement has been funded over $8 Billion

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Most funding is in the Transportation Sector

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“…65 percent of their business migrate to ride

services like Uber, Lyft and Sidecar…”

Disruption, Liability Risks, and Hubris Abound

Large corporations also ramp up adoption

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Crowd Companies Update

• Launched one year ago, here at LeWeb• Now, 48 Corporations• 100% member growth

• We’re accelerating European expansion

1. Startups will emerge and overcrowd each hex in the honeycomb –yet funding and execution will dictate winners.

2. Mature platforms launch APIs –beyond Uber-- resulting in a flurry of growth, analytics, and Collab Economy software suites.

3. A global debate about user safety, online privacy, sharing of data will wage.

4. The crowd demands startups share value with people –new “open source” software and coops, emerges to offer a solution.

5. Disrupted governments and large corporations, realize they must adopt –mainstreaming the movement

FIVE PREDICTIONS:

Welcome our panelists:

Olivier GremillonDirector of Europe & Africa at Airbnb

Frédéric MazzellaFounder and CEO of BlaBlaCar

David EstradaVP of Government Relations at Lyft