Ahead of IPO, Airbnb achieves profitability for second year in a row

Re:Ahead of IPO, Airbnb achieves profitability for second ye... by asteli on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @05:44PM (#18916348)

I have friends who worked at Craigslist, and was astonished to hear them describe a team of IIRC 35-40 employees. They have somewhere around 50 now? Makes you wonder what those 3k+ employees at Twitter all do.

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Re:Ahead of IPO, Airbnb achieves profitability for second ye... by gammateam on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @06:25PM (#18916722)

A lot of companies have an affinity towards jobs numbers, and derive benefits from the local municpality by being able to print job numbers

It simultaneously helps the organization’s tax efficiency and MAYBE something interesting gets developed

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Re:Ahead of IPO, Airbnb achieves profitability for second ye... by samatman on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @12:44AM (#18918529)

While this doesn't explain all of the difference, Twitter tries, and largely succeeds, to distribute both Tweets and likes in mere seconds, all around the world, while maintaining a search that can find any string in relatively recent messages.

That this is a substantially harder mandate than that of Craigslist I take as a given.

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Re:Ahead of IPO, Airbnb achieves profitability for second ye... by gfosco on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @06:38PM (#18916822)

Sales, Marketing, Partnerships, Content Moderation/Censorship.

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