Arun Sundararajan, New York University professor and author of The Sharing Economy, studies the future of capitalism, and is an expert on how platform business models are transforming society.  In this episode, MBO Partners talks to Arun about how the leaders in digital work-related platforms will definite templates for how economic activity will be conducted in the 21st century.Arun speaks about how the byproduct of the platformization of the world and the emergence of the sharing economy has been the growing fraction of people who have an attractive alternative to taking a full time job with a company and how this allows millions of small business owners and independent workers to get access to opportunity that they otherwise wouldn't have had. He talks about the emergence of a more border-fluid landscape for capital creation and what that means for individual workers and how platforms and government in tandem need to make sure that checks remain in place to stave further income inequality. He also speaks about the necessary shift in focusing workforce development education on mid-career education and how we need to equip workers to react opportunistically to the inevitable shifts in opportunities in the work force. He ends by discussing how the administration needs to think about supporting workforce change without reliance on traditional employment models as the only solution and the need for an individual, government and platform partnership.The conversation highlights some of the insights in the 2020 State of Independence in America report. Now in its tenth year of publication, the report takes a data-driven approach to understanding the growth of opportunities for both the independent professional and the enterprise organizations looking to hire them. Future episodes of this podcast will provide further insights on the report’s findings.  About This Episode’s GuestArun Sundararajan is the Harold Price Professor of Entrepreneurship and Professor of Technology, Operations and Statistics at NYU Stern School of Business. A future of work expert, he is the author of the book The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism. His current research focus is on the future of capitalism, artificial intelligence and platform-enabled change, antitrust policy in tech, and the digital future of work. He has been a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Councils on Technology, Values and Policy and the New Economic Agenda. He works with tech companies on issues of strategy, litigation and regulation, and with non-tech companies trying to understand how to forecast and address changes induced by digital technologies. About MBO Partners®MBO Partners is a deep jobs platform that connects and enables independent professionals and microbusiness owners to do business safely and effectively with enterprise organizations. Its unmatched experience and industry leadership enable it to operate on the forefront of the independent economy and consistently advance the next way of working.  For more information, visit​ mbopartners.com.Episode hosted by Aassia Haq; produced, edited, and engineered by Leslie Jennings Rowley. With music by Brian Burrows.MBO Partners © 2021  

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