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Yeah I think in general it's a decent strategy. I'm this case it falls short for me because a key element of Airbnb is that the assets (homes/rooms) are provided by the user base, whereas this product doesn't seem to do that at all. So the strategy of using familiar companies is good, but I think it only works when the functional correlation is strong. In this case I don't think it is.


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