# Professor Arun Sundararajan explains why Airbnb's settlement of its lawsuit from the city of San Francisco will benefit the company

1 Faculty News May 4, 2017 ![WIRED logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_032348.jpg?itok=Wszefc-R)>

Excerpt from [WIRED](http://https://www.wired.com/2017/05/airbnbs-san-francisco-deal-puts-storyline-bottom-line/) -- "'Airbnb is clearly the market leader in home sharing, and it has its eye on the public market in the not-so-distant future,' says [Arun Sundararajan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan), a business professor at New York University who studies the so-called sharing economy. 'It’s good for them not to have outstanding lawsuits—it reduces the perceived regulatory risk.'"

[Read more](http://https://www.wired.com/2017/05/airbnbs-san-francisco-deal-puts-storyline-bottom-line/)