PositiveThe Wall Street Journal...a fun, briskly told narrative that, unfortunately, labors under some burdens ... Mr. Stone’s reporting is excellent on one less well-known part of the story: the firms that lost the race. Neither Uber nor Airbnb were the first in their respective spaces ... The Upstarts tells us about the billions of dollars in venture capital that Airbnb and Uber have spent in expansion, but it doesn’t offer much insight into the platform economics that drive this process and what they may mean for the future ... The Upstarts is not the end of the story but an excellent history of the beginning.
