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I was thinking the same thing. Is Uber a taxi company or a "tech company"? Is Airbnb a lodging company or a "tech company"? Don't all companies nowadays involv

• protomyth 10y ago
  It got answered in the article for the follow-up thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12003570 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12003570 "The measure identifies tech companies by the type of tax code they use under the Internal Revenue Service’s North American Industry Classification System. Companies classify themselves. They may face penalties if a government audit finds they are misidentifying themselves."