<p>This first episode explores the question behind Library of Things.</p><p>Together with my co-founder, Bex Trevalyan, we tell our origin story.&nbsp;</p><br><p>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.&nbsp;</p><p>We didn't trademark. We shared our model with our peers before we'd figured it all out, with tours &amp; toolkits. We built for community before we built for revenue. Embracing the tension between helping a movement whilst also trying to prove a concept.</p><br><p>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?</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>