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I know absolutely nothing about the people that run AirBnB, but based on those ads my brain instantly imagined a small group of twentysomethings from rich famil
by mwfunk 10y ago
I know absolutely nothing about the people that run AirBnB, but based on those ads my brain instantly imagined a small group of twentysomethings from rich families who'd never worked a day in their life prior to getting out of college, who have yet to mature intellectually or otherwise past the point of thinking that being really snotty and sarcastic and dismissive of their opponents is an effective form of argumentation, whose entire worldview is circumscribed by whatever bubble of funemployed trust fund hipster kids they socialize with and have always socialized with, but who somehow fell backwards into a good idea and accidentally ended up with some VC money and just enough competent friends/employees/business partners to get the thing off the ground, but still have no idea what they're doing and are just coasting from the momentum of a great idea and good-enough execution so far.
Again, I have no idea what these people are actually like, but that's the mental image of the company that those ads (and other company statements and actions over the years) conjure up for me. If that's the intent of their marketing, then mission accomplished I guess, but I've got to think there are better messages they could be putting out there to help their cause.
- ben_jones 10y agoI've met a few. All upper twenty-somethings who have drank so much of the Kool-Aid that absolutely everything else they taste tastes like Kool-Aid. I'd feel sorry for them if they weren't making a ton of money off it. Which is ironic because that's exactly what the Kool-Aid tells them: if it's profitable it's moral.