[neilv]

At what point did anyone at Airbnb what economic effects this would have, before proceeding anyway?

Was it in the first hours that the idea was conceived? When it started to take off? Not until they were projecting growth at those levels?

[foogazi]

Wasn’t AirBnB glorified couch-surfing initially?

It was setup as live with a local who will show you around

It came to be because hotel stock sucked for elastic demand: big conferences and festivals

[pcthrowaway]

Yeah, the perversion of the sharing economy into the gig economy was the worst thing happen on the internet.