# Professor Arun Sundararajan notes that Airbnb has faced a harder regulatory and legal path than other tech companies because it straddles both the digital and analog worlds

1 Faculty News February 14, 2020 ![Bloomberg logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/bloomberg192x144.jpg?itok=yV529lwz)>

Excerpt from [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-airbnb-ipo-challenges/) -- "Unlike businesses such as Facebook Inc. or Alphabet Inc.’s Google that operate mostly online, Airbnb straddles both the digital and analog worlds, which is why it has faced 'a harder regulatory and legal path than their predecessors,' said [Arun Sundararajan](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan), a professor at NYU who has written books on the sharing economy."

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