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Re:Airbnb Files to Raise $850M at $30B Valuation by ethanbond on Saturday August 06, 2016 @04:39PM (#12239800)
Why does everyone think that a competitor must be able to operate at the scale of Uber/Airbnb the day it's released? How many taxi commissions thought "oh no one can dethrone us, no one has 10,000 cars!"
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Re:Airbnb Files to Raise $850M at $30B Valuation by thesimpsons1022 on Sunday August 07, 2016 @02:53AM (#12241329)
Because I travel to paris one week and new york the other and seattle the other. If the listings aren't at all those places I discard the app and never use it again.
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Re:Airbnb Files to Raise $850M at $30B Valuation by dispatcher68 on Saturday August 06, 2016 @05:57PM (#12240091)
Uber does not have meaningful network effects. Airbnb does.

A competitor would need to be more than marginally better to compete subscale, as Airbnb was vs craigslist or original vrbo.

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