The Professionalization of Airbnb Hosts | skift.com

When Airbnb talks about its legal troubles in New York, Berlin, Amsterdam, and elsewhere, it claims that existing laws were never designed for its new brand of disruptive peer-to-peer business. Case 1: CEO Brian Chesky told The Wall Street Journal in January that: There were laws created for businesses, and there were laws for people. What the sharing economy did was create a third category: people as businesses… They don’t know whether to...

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