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Reading this article felt like reading an ad.


It was triggered by press release from them possibly embargoed so they could prepare the article on time. So it's not really an ad but driven by promotion. Without the PR there would be no article.

The PR pack contain actual ad for the company announcing API platform etc. this was submitted to HN at the same time by a few different people.

Most press just replicate whatever is in a press release from a company but some, better, publishers use it to write an article.


There's a critical element there. I'm very skeptical they can pull off being a luxury Groupon.


Same feeling, so much words and story telling just for that.


Really? Because it’s kind of mocking them the whole time


The irony is the CEO probably can't tell it's mocking him.

What's the first sign of a midlife crisis?

That someone thinks a new car will turn them into a not-asshole.

> He wanted to bust the company he’d cofounded out of its pigeonhole of short-term home rentals. Amazon, he was fond of pointing out, was first an online bookstore before it became the everything store.

> “I was basically going from room to room just pouring out this stream-of-consciousness manifesto, like Jack Kerouac writing On the Road,” he says

> Chesky hopes to build the ultimate agent, a super-concierge who starts off handling customer service and eventually knows you well enough to plan your travel and maybe the rest of your life.

> “Brian’s been badly underrated as a tech CEO,” Altman says of his friend. “He's not usually mentioned in the same breath as Larry Page or Bill Gates, but I think he is on a path to build as big of a company.”

> “Steve Jobs, to me, is like Michelangelo or da Vinci,” he says. Despite never meeting Jobs, “I feel like I know him deeply, professionally, in a way that few people ever did, in a way that you only possibly could by starting a tech company as a creative person and going on a rocket ship,”

> “[AirBnB experiences] was like our Newton,” says Chesky, referring to Apple’s handheld device that predated the iPhone.

Yeah... somehow I don't think that guy understands subtlety or nuance. What a douche.


Which was extra weird since it's behind a paywall.




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