# Professor Arun Sundararajan discusses the merits of ridesharing companies catering to children

1 Faculty News May 27, 2016 ![USA Today logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_027308.jpg?itok=crstnihK)>

Excerpt from [USA Today](http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/05/27/kids-ride-hailing-companies-great-idea-troubled-reality/85003614/) -- "'The basic business idea behind these companies is very good, but it’s going to take a particular company to make the model work,' says [Arun Sundararajan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan), a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business and author of The Sharing Economy."

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