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First airbnb, now loopt. Something evil has infiltrated the house of ycombinator.
by chailatte 15y ago
First airbnb, now loopt. Something evil has infiltrated the house of ycombinator.
- rdl 15y agoWhat "evil" has AirBnB done? Yes, they're disruptive to the hotel industry, and you might claim that hotel taxes are a major and legitimate source of cost-recovery (although I'd be perfectly happy if AirBnB negotiated to collect occupancy tax and then pass it on to the city). That's approximately as evil as Amazon or any other online merchant, though.
- chailatte 15y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2603844 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2603844
- sandipagr 15y agoPeople need to chill and not downvote just because they disagree. Seriously, what is wrong with the parent's comment?
- prodigal_erik 15y agoI had a very visceral reaction to reading that YC had dirty money from spammers, but to be fair there's a much longer list of startups they've funded who are not airbnb-type scum (at least that we know of).
- byrneseyeview 15y agoAt least according to them, AirBNB didn't do this directly--it was done by a firm they hired to get leads, and that they didn't continue working with.
- prodigal_erik 15y agoAs the sysadmins say, Rule #1: spammers lie. If their "policy to forbid such actions" even existed it was a completely unenforced fig leaf of deniability, because that is in fact how their "person-to-person sales" contractors were allowed to spend their time until a third party did a little diligence and caught them at it, and unsurprisingly they're going to get away with it—there's been no mention of a lawsuit or anything to claw back what they got paid for poisoning the well.