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by foogazi 1130 days ago
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

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