Airbnb to Acquire HotelTonight

Re:Airbnb to Acquire HotelTonight by wenc on Thursday March 07, 2019 @07:00PM (#19333908)

> I'm just pointing out that the nature of Airbnb's business means that there's no real-time, no streaming, no billions of concurrent users, etc.

I guess I’m not sure why it is necessary for a tech company to be defined by these criteria? That’s just me.

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Re:Airbnb to Acquire HotelTonight by throwaway-1283 on Thursday March 07, 2019 @07:26PM (#19334037)

I'm not saying a "tech" company has to be defined by how "hard" the tech is, or that a "tech" company isn't a "tech" company because it isn't working on LIDAR or AI.

I'm just pointing out that Airbnb's application of "tech" isn't necessarily "hard" tech, relative to other companies that it's usually associated with or compared to in the SF startup scene.

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Re:Airbnb to Acquire HotelTonight by wenc on Thursday March 07, 2019 @07:37PM (#19334094)

Fair enough. I guess your original statement was more that AirBnB shouldn’t be consider a tech company in the same breath as FB and Netflix, and not that it isn’t a tech company.

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