Airbnb's CEO Brian Chesky is spending hundreds of millions to relaunch his travel company as an everything app. Fitness! Food! Microdermabrasion?
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I hope he loses it all.
Like every other modern 'disruptive' tech, it gained traction by drastically undercutting prices of an established market.
Over time, prices crept up, service got worse, grifters showed up, and now it's basically a worse version of hotels.
He has been hanging out with Elon, right?
So yes, by all means spend this money on a business venture that will fail. Oh to be rich, must be so fun!
My biggest failure in life is not getting rich enough to be able to offload adulting to underlings
Could I potentially employ people, with decent wages.
I wonder if he ever wondered what user feedback on his server was.
I doubt tbh.
All services and jobs would be better if employers thought about that.
Nobody wants 1 company to control everything. COMPETITION == GOOD PRODUCTS & SERVICES.
Thoughts?
They get one bite of the apple so make that 15% count.
I've never traveled back to a place such that I could cut Airbnb out of the transactions.
Remember when Airbnb was a thing?
it's going to fail hilariously
If it happens, then it’s worth commenting on.
That and for a long time they should've had better privacy posture. Now he wants it to be a public social media profile? Ha! GLHF.
It is hilarious that he is worth more if he shut down the site rather than kept running it.
Once Airbnb relaunches as an everything app, the one function that will be the most difficult to find and use will be Vacation Rentals.
It's been appalling, and in many ways, for a long time, and my usage had more or less dwindled to nothing.
Ah, and then one of the co-founders (on the board, rather than active) joined Trump's inauguration, and that was the final end of it.
Into the sun.
Just ask the Chinese who are banned from WeChat how everyday life is going for them.
just what we needed
(Spoiler: it didn't/doesn't work)
Companies need: PURPOSEFUL, UNWAVERING FOCUS.