Why we should always challenge the accepted ways of doing things

Crowded view of Tom Mboya street in Nairobi. [Jenipher Wachie, Standard]

This past week, writer and social influencer Julian Shapiro took to twitter with an intriguing observation.

Airbnb is today roughly a $100 billion start-up, Shapiro noted, as he wondered why many investors and entrepreneurs did not see the opportunity before yet the ingredients required for such a business model to take off and scale - like growing Internet access, high demand for budget travel as well as regulatory ability - had existed for years.