In April, with travel halted worldwide and revenue plunging, the cofounders of Airbnb raised $2 billion in debt and equity financing. Two weeks later, I was laid off. WIRED OPINION ABOUT Anna Furman is a Los Angeles-based writer. She covers arts and culture stories for the New York Times, The Guardian, and other publications. For […]
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For a minute there, at the start of the global lockdown, it seemed to be an open question: Would we all be able to get everything we needed delivered? Three months in, while nobody’s getting two-day deliveries anymore, it does seem as if Amazon alone might be able to provide almost all of us with
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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi addresses a press conference in New Delhi, India, on October 22, 2019. … [+] (Photo by Indraneel Chowdhury/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images Amid concerns about platform-users’ safety in the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as criticism of gig platforms’ treatment of their suppliers both generally and lately, the heads
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There’s a logical flow to the coronavirus’ cascading list of cancellations. If X is cancelled, then Y must be cancelled — and, if Y, then Z. Airbnb got caught in the flood this weekend when the global home stay conpamy’s headquarters announced the activation of its Extenuating Circumstances cancellation policy around the world. According to the
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GetMyBoat, is a startup that calls itself the “Airbnb of Boats.” This app lets interested people rent boats in many different countries. Small Business Trends contacted Val Streif, marketing manager for GetMyBoat, to find out what makes this enterprise successful. He started by making some big claims. “GetMyBoat is the world’s largest marketplace for boat
The decision won’t impact either Airbnb or Google’s business for now. But, in three to five years? It might indeed. After tossing its listings into Google’s vacation rental product in Europe and Asia about a month ago, some of Airbnb’s apartment and vacation home listings in the United States are now appearing in Google as
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SAN FRANCISCO — Last summer, several Airbnb employees wrote a letter to the online room-rental start-up’s founders. On behalf of more than a dozen employees, they pleaded to be able to sell their Airbnb stock options. Because Airbnb is privately held, its shares cannot be easily traded or cashed in. So the employees also asked
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Home rental company Airbnb says it will invest $25 million toward affordable housing and other community needs, the latest plan by tech firms to ease a housing crisis their rapid growth has helped exacerbate. Airbnb said the money would be split between Los Angeles County and the San Francisco Bay Area, the state’s largest urban
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from the come-on dept In the midst of this “techlash” atmosphere, it seems that basically every industry whose business models have been upended by competition brought about by the internet is now cynically using the anger directed at successful internet companies as an opportunity to kneecap the wider internet. We’ve recently pointed out that many
