Is your business about to be disrupted by the crowd? Because the sharing economy never really was just about sharing. Here is the slide deck from Ron J's keynote talk at FT Innovate in London (2014).

1. Power to the people:
Beyond sharing
FT Innovate
Nov 2014

2. Hi, I’m
Ron J. Williams
@ronjdub #beyondsharing

3. There never was a sharing economy

10. People dealing directly with people

11. 200+
in “category”
by 2013

12. And we missed the point…

14. …the crowd got sentient.

15. I fell in love in 2005

17. Choice + Convenience = Commerce

18. “Information drives action”
— Ade McCormack

19. More inventory than all NYC Hotels
COMBINED

22. Technology has removed
the friction and capital
requirement that
protected industrialists
from the crowd.

23. It’s about access.

24. It’s about participation.

25. It’s about partnership.

26. Commerce?

27. Risk management?

28. More data provides granularity
for every single part of business

29. How will your business partner with
the crowd to move #beyondsharing?
Say Hi!
ron@prooflabsgroup.com