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It seems like for any tech company to be successful and sustainable it has to destroy the openness and community it was born from. I discovered couch surfing ri
by marricks 5y ago
It seems like for any tech company to be successful and sustainable it has to destroy the openness and community it was born from. I discovered couch surfing right as my wandering days came to a close and I feel I sorely missed out.
- tjs8rj 5y agoI think the destruction of openness is a reflection of the user they serve. When Airbnb serves only NYC they can be idiosyncratic to the population there, and their smaller user base is a more similar type of person. Once at scale, they have to appeal to everyone in the addressable market, which is a very diverse set of people, which makes shared community and closeness harder (what do 100m people all have in common except superficially?). They don’t kill the openness intentionally, it’s just a consequence of that fact that mass appeal is the opposite of tightknit