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did y combinator ever find its way to begin with? besides making money, have any really useful things been funded by them? airbnb is the only one i can think of
by the_cat_kittles 6y ago
did y combinator ever find its way to begin with? besides making money, have any really useful things been funded by them? airbnb is the only one i can think of that is something im actually glad exists
- pietrovismara 6y ago> airbnb is the only one i can think of that is something im actually glad exists If you leave aside the fact that it destroyed housing in many cities, like the one I live in. A handful of landlords got richer, turists could travel cheaper (not necessarily a good thing overall), but an entire class of citizens got kicked out of the city as now no landlord wants to regularly rent their flat. If you ask for disruption, that's what you get. When you disrupt a market, you also disrupt many lives, even indirectly.
- 2cb 6y agoThere's also the "ghost hotels." https://www.wired.co.uk/article/airbnb-scam-london https://www.wired.co.uk/article/airbnb-scam-london
- the_cat_kittles 6y agothat is true and bad. i was mostly just thinking superficially selfish perspective of things i like using.
- tim333 6y agoReddit, Dropbox and Stipe are all quite good. I think they're doing pretty well.