[beerlord]

No, the reason is that to-date there had not been a global platform available. AirBNB benefits from a massive global economy of scale. I can use the same platform in America, Germany, Australia, Bulgaria.

First one to scale wins.

[kuhhk]

Wasn’t VRBO available (globally) long before AirBnB? I thought AirBnB just stole the idea and had the VC capital to scale it

[brianwawok]

Correct, VRBO has been around a while. They do not aggressively go after getting units in towns that do not allow short term rentals, like AirBnB does.

[mvid]

There are plenty of global apps for hotels. In theory they could also have been used for houses. So that clearly was not the differentiator