This first episode explores the question behind Library of Things.
Together with my co-founder, Bex Trevalyan, we tell our origin story.
Not only why and how we started in 2014, but why we built it differently from business as usual. Like our members, we decided we didn't need to own everything.
We didn't trademark. We shared our model with our peers before we'd figured it all out, with tours & toolkits. We built for community before we built for revenue. Embracing the tension between helping a movement whilst also trying to prove a concept.
Twelve years on, we've proved city-wide sharing is possible and share our name with a wider movement of lending libraries in the thousands - all trying to answer that original question: do you really need to own it?
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