Airbnb raises $1B at $31B valuation, became profitable in 2016

Re:Airbnb raises $1B at $31B valuation, became profitable in... by ghaff on Thursday March 09, 2017 @02:26PM (#13832400)

>Reviews are a problem, but not for novels.

Hmm. I'm willing to accept that the average reader is a more sophisticated and thoughtful consumer than for some other product categories. And there may be less overt tribalism and fanboyism in book reviews.

But, in my experience, there's still a lot of people who will almost unthinkingly give 5 stars to a favorite author or genre. (And I know some of those people who are pretty uncritical about SF books or whatever.)

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Re:Airbnb raises $1B at $31B valuation, became profitable in... by robryan on Thursday March 09, 2017 @04:15PM (#13833733)

Goodreads reviews are still pretty inflated. Anything around or under 3.5 or so probably has some big flaws.

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Re:Airbnb raises $1B at $31B valuation, became profitable in... by antisthenes on Thursday March 09, 2017 @04:34PM (#13833940)

I have found no correlation between the Goodreads score and my own perception of the book.

Again, novels and products are entirely different in that you're hopefully shopping for a product by its specs. You can't 'research' novels beforehand (unless you count as reading other novels by the same author as research) and they don't have any specs to go by.

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