[rcoc]

I can't remember which thread it was, but there was a lengthy discussion about what qualifies as a tech company and whether something like AirBnB was a "tech" company. It was a distinction I had also struggled with, but this article provided clarity for me. What these companies deliver for their customers may not necessarily be traditional tech (lodging, delivery, etc) but the way they accomplish this is definitely a technical achievement.

[zwieback]

Yeah, as an engineer it's hard for me to think of anything that doesn't have motors or sensors or at least PCBs as "tech". But I've also been a programmer for 30 years so I can appreciate pure SW projects that are hidden from the end-user as technical achievements. So at first things like AirBnB or travel search engines don't seem very techy but once these apps or websites are past their initial clunky releases there's a lot of hard work in the background that makes for a pleasant user experience.

[tmh88j]

Isn't the term for that a tech enabled company?