How Do Sharing Economy Companies Grow? A Comparison of Internal and External Growth Patterns of Airbnb and Uber

Airbnb and Uber are two of the most popular and successful peer-to-peer startups in the last five years. As organizations expand, they must bring new talent in house to manage pressure from significant domestic and international expansion. There have been no studies on the growth patterns of peer-topeer startups; as well, the method of using archival job postings to track internal and external growth is a novel contribution. This project will identify a growth pattern for these new organizational forms and contribute usage of a new data source – job postings – to track this growth. Results How Do Sharing Economy Companies Grow? A Comparison of Internal and External Growth Patterns of Airbnb and Uber