Airbnb Failed – Illegal Host, Electric Shocks, Slugs, Leaks and No Support

Re:Airbnb Failed – Illegal Host, Electric Shocks, Slugs, Lea... by drc500free on Friday October 21, 2022 @12:48PM (#33290164)

These always remind me of the Stay Puft marshmallow man from Ghostbusters. Like the most innocuous thing ever becomes terrible at scale. Amazon, Uber, AirBnB, Facebook all seemed like reasonable to great ideas and were really neat at smaller scale. And once they grew they started wreaking havoc in new and unexpected ways.

It’s a good thought experiment for any startup - how could this cool thing that people like destroy the world if it became a paper clip maximizer?

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Re:Airbnb Failed – Illegal Host, Electric Shocks, Slugs, Lea... by datavirtue on Friday October 21, 2022 @01:01PM (#33290365)

Exactly, I was so optimistic that the only path was one of human enlightenment because of the internet's ability to scale up the distribution of information and allow groups to collaborate instantly.

It all went horribly wrong.

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Re:Airbnb Failed – Illegal Host, Electric Shocks, Slugs, Lea... by mcguire on Friday October 21, 2022 @02:14PM (#33291234)

Human's gonna human. :-)

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