[Ryanmf]

It occurs to me that x-sharing startups in the mold of Airbnb/Uber may be most likely to overcome their regulatory challenges not through litigation or lobbying, but simply due to more of them popping up and the increased likelihood that the average person knows someone who has benefitted ("my friend's daughter who paid her way through law school driving for Uber", "my cousin the line cook who was offered the opportunity of a pop-up run at an established restaurant after a few successful months on Cozymeal", etc.)

Also, I wonder if Cozymeal might find opportunities on the operations/materials side of this equation. I know that e.g. sourcing and selecting ingredients is frequently a very personal experience for chefs and restauranteurs, but I can't help but think there could be some upside to facilitating volume pricing of certain ingredients for members within a particular region, not unlike how members of hobbyist electronics groups will organize group buys of components. If ingredients are a bridge too far, they might apply the same logic to more practical items—flatware, napkins, menus, and so forth.

[michaelfeathers]

> It occurs to me that x-sharing startups in the mold of Airbnb/Uber may be most likely to overcome their regulatory challenges not through litigation or lobbying, but simply due to more of them popping up and the increased likelihood that the average person knows someone who has benefitted

I think there's something sublime about that. It seems the technology drives culture in many ways and it happens when an innovation goes viral and benefits people faster than the law can react.

Some technologies don't get the chance to do that. People see harms before they can feel the benefits and start to turn public opinion and law against the innovation. Segway's and Google Glass are in that category, I think.