In 1978, American sociology professors Marcos Felson and Jones Spence first proposed the concept of sharing economy. However, due to the constraints of space and relationships, the sharing economy has always remained at the conceptual level. Around 2010, with the development of mobile Internet, especially with the emergence of a series of physical sharing platforms such as Uber and Airbnb, sharing began to move from pure free sharing and information sharing to a "sharing economy" with the main purpose of obtaining certain rewards, based on strangers and with the temporary transfer of the right to use items. In 2016, there were many bicycles of the same color on the streets of cities across the country. There were yellow, orange, and blue. During the recession of the bicycle industry, these bicycle companies were favored by capital and easily received 20 to 30 billion in financing. Yes, this is the popularity of shared bicycles represented by OFO and Mobike. This is the charm of the sharing economy. People have fallen in love with this lifestyle. The sharing economy is changing from a novelty to a part of our lives, and a new era has begun. Overcapacity + sharing platform + everyone participates
“You can open a hotel without a single room, a car rental company without a single car, and a shopping mall without a single product.” In addition to Uber, Airbnb, shared bikes and other well-known projects, the sharing economy has never stopped exploring creative ideas:
Ucommune shares "office space" and provides services for startups and small and micro enterprises. Less than a year after its establishment, its valuation has exceeded RMB 2 billion, changing the office ecology of nearly 2,000 entrepreneurs and 190 enterprises.
Mao Daqing, founder and chairman of Ucommune: "Ucommune shares 'office space' and provides services to startups and small and micro enterprises. Less than a year after its establishment, its valuation has exceeded RMB 2 billion, changing the office ecology of nearly 2,000 entrepreneurs and 190 companies. We have not completely left the real estate industry, and we still share some materials from the real estate industry. Sharing various office resources is far more than just a matter of space."
Xiaoe Butler shares people's "professional skills" and provides users with door-to-door services such as pick-up and delivery, cooking, and picking up children.
Zhang Rongyao, chairman of Xiaoe Guanjia: "I have been doing laundry for 25 years. We now deliver 100,000 pieces of clothes a day, all of which are delivered by aunties in the neighborhood. Even if we put together the clothes we delivered in the past 25 years, they would not be as many as we deliver today."
A startup team from Shenzhen even proposed a creative project to share traffic from PCs, mobile phones and other terminals. Long Weijun: "BLOCKCDN uses distributed CDN technology, allowing every computer or mobile phone to become a node server and share its own traffic or bandwidth. Combining blockchain, smart contracts and other technologies, the price of CDN can be reduced by 90%. We want to say no to the profiteering CDN companies in the industry. This is the opportunity that the sharing economy brings to each of us." "Blockchain is a technology that changes the Internet and makes everything fair and transparent. We were the first to explore the sharing economy on blockchain, which put us at the forefront. It was a challenge. But the trend of blockchain and sharing economy has given us the opportunity to change an industry," said Long Weijun.
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