# Professor Arun Sundararajan comments on Airbnb's early political strategy

1 Faculty News July 21, 2016 ![TIME logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025660.jpg?itok=PFxttUnQ)>

Excerpt from [TIME](http://time.com/4416136/airbnb-politics-sharing-economy-regulations-housing/) -- "In the early days, Airbnb 'often started with the position that the laws don’t fit,' says [Arun Sundararajan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan), a business professor at NYU, who has studied the company."

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