I won't comment on the merits of the subpoena itself, but I find it somewhat amusing that a company so focused on data[1] is arguing that it can't deal with "hu

I won't comment on the merits of the subpoena itself, but I find it somewhat amusing that a company so focused on data[1] is arguing that it can't deal with "hundreds of thousands of separate records spanning millions of [Excel spreadsheet] cells." According to this[2], Airbnb's "world-class" team has built some pretty impressive systems to deal with significantly greater amounts of data ("20 terabytes of new data created daily"). [1] http://gigaom.com/2013/07/29/airbnb-is-engineering-itself-into-a-data-driven-company/ http://gigaom.com/2013/07/29/airbnb-is-engineering-itself-in... [2] http://www.bigdatarepublic.com/author.asp?section_id=2635&doc_id=266519 http://www.bigdatarepublic.com/author.asp?section_id=2635&do...