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A comment on Airbnb Is Raising A Big Third Round, Aiming For A Valuation North Of $2B. Parent comment

Re:Airbnb Is Raising A Big Third Round, Aiming For A Valuati... by Evbn on Thursday September 27, 2012 @02:13AM (#4579584)
That is an election year hit piece on a fringe blog (alter net)

Whitman led eBay to incredible valuations (6x from 1998 IPO to 2005), until the bizarre Skype flop, and as the MS buyout showed, Skype was run by some very clever crooks.

https://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:EBAY&#...

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Re:Airbnb Is Raising A Big Third Round, Aiming For A Valuati... by jaggederest on Thursday September 27, 2012 @02:56AM (#4579668)
As a user, that's roughly the timespan during which eBay went from the marketplace to being more or less irrelevant. When Craigslist beats you based on user interface, you know you have issues.
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