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Re:Airbnb will up its penalty for hosts who cancel last-minu... by menzoic on Friday July 22, 2022 @01:04PM (#32194357)
WeWork either owned or rented all of it's properties. Airbnb is a tech platform that doesn't own any properties so by definition it's a tech company. I hear the same argument about Uber not being a tech company but they are too. Airbnb and Uber build apps and benefit from being a tech company because they can scale globally without investing in properties or taxis
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Re:Airbnb will up its penalty for hosts who cancel last-minu... by effingwewt on Friday July 22, 2022 @02:37PM (#32195579)
They are middlemen, not a tech company.

Using tech for your business doesn't make it a tech business.

The same business has been run for years before the internet with cork-boards.

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Re:Airbnb will up its penalty for hosts who cancel last-minu... by kube-system on Friday July 22, 2022 @02:50PM (#32195729)
Big hotel brands often don’t own the hotel property that their names are on too.

The difference between “host” and “franchisee” seems to mostly be accountability and capital, not ownership by the brand on the booking site.

Amusingly enough, I once stayed in an Airbnb at a Wyndham.

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Re:Airbnb will up its penalty for hosts who cancel last-minu... by jjav on Saturday July 23, 2022 @02:35AM (#32200948)
> by definition it's a tech company

Using technology to enable the business doesn't make the company a tech company. By that definition every company on earth is a tech company.

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