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Celebrating? HN is extremely anti-Airbnb.

• bronson 8y ago
  wdewind was presumably talking about Fast Company, who are most certainly celebrating them.
• wdewind 8y ago
  Maybe, but AirBnB has also been held up as a positive story of tenacity and disruption in this community as well. It's probably gone on so long it's become a parody of itself, but people keep writing these articles because people keep reading them.
• throwaway5752 8y ago
  Not really clear on your tone, but HN exists as a tech forum because it is developed and hosted by Y Combinator, which funded Airbnb in a seed round (which I believe they still have, and assume is substantially valuable). So there is the probably more of a complicated community dynamic than "HN is extremely anti-Airbnb"
  • orky56 8y ago
    To that same point, Airbnb investors include pretty much everyone who have also invested in other startup darlings: Sequoia, A16Z, Crunchfund, Google, Founders Fund, Greylock, SV Angel, General Catalyst, KPCB
• dbspin 8y ago
  Clearly, based on the comments on this article, that isn't remotely true. As someone who lives in a city with one of the most severe rental crisis in the world, with a 3:1 ratio of Airbnb properties to rental properties: I earnestly hope they go bankrupt tomorrow and their founders are tried as accomplices to the violations of local law they facilitate. * https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/nov/29/empty-dublin-housing-crisis-airbnb-homelessness-landlords https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/nov/29/empty-dublin-...