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Something about travel is deadly alluring to some category of entrepreneur. I once went to a party in Silicon Valley, where I met multiple people working on "it
by SwellJoe 11y ago
Something about travel is deadly alluring to some category of entrepreneur. I once went to a party in Silicon Valley, where I met multiple people working on "it's sort of like WikiPedia for travel" (this was a few years ago, when "wiki for X" seemed like a reasonable business idea and occasionally even got funding and actually launched something). And, I said, "Oh, I think I just met your co-founder a few minutes ago." and, they replied, "No, my co-founder isn't here", or "no, I don't have any co-founders". Multiple people, multiple conversations. None of them knew the others or had any awareness that they were competing with, seemingly, thousands of people who had the same brilliant idea.
By my calculations, something like 10% of all the people at that party were working on a fucking travel wiki. That's kind of a microcosm of Silicon Valley, in general, but yeah...travel seems like a weird black hole for entrepreneurs.
- exelius 11y ago> travel seems like a weird black hole for entrepreneurs. Not that weird at all actually -- it's an easy to understand business with an overly-complex buy flow they think they can fix. It's the kind of problem that many entrepreneurs are likely to have run into themselves and said "Well I can do this better".
- tim333 11y agoThere are lots of successful companies in the space too. Must be >20 large ones. Skyscanner just became I think the first Scottish unicorn a week ago and I'm sure there will be more. Just a lot of competition.