Scott discusses how Google Career Certificates could unbundle higher education. He’s excited, to say the least.  Then, Arun Sundararajan, a professor of entrepreneurship and professor of technology, operations and statistics at NYU’s Stern School of Business, breaks down how the pandemic will accelerate the shift to pl

Oct. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Arun Sundararajan, who is a professor of business at New York University. Sundararajan is also the author of the book "The Sharing Economy and Crowd-Based Capitalism." This commentary aired on Bloomberg Radio. Learn more about your ad-choices at

We all share, but today, millions get paid for it. Is this new trend just a fad or is it radical rethink for how we work? When we catch a ride with an Uber driver or contract with someone on Upwork, we marvel at the convenience. What we often overlook is the amount of trust it takes to ride with a stranger or to work w

Drawing on extensive research and numerous real-world examples — including Airbnb, Lyft, Uber, Etsy, TaskRabbit, France’s BlaBlaCar, China’s Didi Kuaidi, and India’s Ola, Arun explains the basics of what he’s coined “crowd-based capitalism” — a new way of organizing economic activity that will replace the traditional c

Arun Sundararajan is Professor and the Robert L. and Dale Atkins Rosen Faculty Fellow at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He is also an affiliated faculty member at NYU's Center for Urban Science+Progress, and at NYU's Center for Data Science. Professor Sundararajan's research program studies