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What PG and FW both missed about AirBNB in their email exchange
- lsb 16y agoThat's not necessarily true. PG says that there's one strategic sentence redacted. Vacation Rentals is an upgrade from yuppies' airbeds, with commensurately higher margins. Hotels are an upgrade from Vacation Rentals, with higher margins again. Did you know that 25% of your hotel booking fee goes to the "Online Travel Agent" that runs your card?
- random42 16y agoAlso, the assumption that no unique information was provided in the airbnb founders' meeting with Fred, and email conversation contains all the information, is probably incorrect.
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- jedc 16y agoSomeone else submitted it. The post author is andrewparker on HN.
- rgrieselhuber 16y agoI don't see the problem - nobody is forcing people to upvote the story.
- mooneater 16y agoouch, hard to read over that background!
- staunch 16y agoEverything is red now!
- andrewparker 16y agoYea, thanks for the feedback. I changed it and also dialed down the translucency on the white background area for the text significantly. Hopefully readability will now be improved. Thanks for reading.
- zyfo 16y agoThey probably didn't miss anything, you did. You are judging two people's (two very initiated people at that) knowledge based on one (semi-censured) email conversation. There are several more likely scenarios, such as: a) no need to mention either VBRO nor couchsurfing since they were both well aware of them. b) it was mentioned but in another context. c) it was redacted. d) there was no point mentioning it since AirBNB would've said it in their pitch.