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Re:Airbnb Commits To SF By Signing A 10-Year, 169,000 Square... by il on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @02:15PM (#3920403)
Airbnb is frequenty cited as a counterpoint to all the bubble talk because they have a real business model and are making money. Same goes for all the other highly valued YC companies(Dropbox,OMGPOP,Heroku,etc).
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Re:Airbnb Commits To SF By Signing A 10-Year, 169,000 Square... by mentat on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @02:35PM (#3920484)
There seem to be non-trivial possible legal landmines though which are likely to multiply internationally.
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Re:Airbnb Commits To SF By Signing A 10-Year, 169,000 Square... by philwelch on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @02:43PM (#3920520)
That's not unusual--PayPal was in the same boat and they made billions.
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