What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption is a groundbreaking original book that includes dozens of stories of how entrepreneurs and businesses are innovating in the space of Collaborative Consumption.
"A remarkably hopeful and accessible book about a social revolution gaining momentum." Financial Times
About
Rachel Botsman is a social innovator who writes, consults and speaks on the power of collaboration and sharing through network technologies. She wrote the influential book What’s Mine is Yours: How Collaborative Consumption Is Changing The Way We Live TIME Magazine recently called Collaborative Consumption one of the “10 Ideas That Will Change The World”.
“Collaborative Consumption is a socioeconomic groundswell that will transform the way companies think about their value propositions—and the way people fulfill their needs.” — Harvard Business Review
“If you weren’t already convinced that collaboration is the current world wave—in politics, business, life—then listen to Rachel Botsman on the subject! Her talk at Microsoft Research both provoked and inspired, setting off an active conversation that continues to this day and world-wide within the company.” — Kim Ricketts, Microsoft Research Visiting Speaker Series
Her thinking on how technology will change how we work and live has been widely published in WIRED, The Guardian, Harvard Business Review, New York Times, The Economist and Fast Company. Rachel has a monthly future tech trends column in the Australian Financial Review.
Rachel has presented at high profile events including WIRED, The Clinton Global Initiative, TEDx, HP, Google and No.10 Downing Street. She was recently named by Monocle as one of the top 20 speakers in the world.
A former director at President Clinton’s Foundation, Rachel is currently partner in the Collaborative Fund, a leading source of seed capital and strategic support for creative entrepreneurs who want to change the world.
She received her BFA (Honors) from the University of Oxford, and undertook her postgraduate studies at Harvard University.
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