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Peer-to-peer e-commerce platforms seem to be popping up almost daily, touching nearly every vertical ripe for disruption, or at least providing just a little grease for the wheel.

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A widely repeated story concerns a man (let’s call him Henry) who, on the recommendation of a friend, decided to list on an obscure apartment-sharing website called “Airbed and Breakfast” a very elaborate treehouse he originally built for his then off-to-college son. Today, Henry’s treehouse is one of the more popular destinations on a marketplace that boasts over 250,000 properties in 192 countries (there is often a seven-week waiting list for the treehouse). In fact, Henry has since paid off the mortgage on his real house through the proceeds garnered through the Airbed and Breakfast site at www.Airbnb.com.

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