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AirBnB isn't even good at being AirBnB anymore. Like every other modern 'disruptive' tech, it gained traction by drastically undercutting prices of an established market. Over time, prices crept up, service got worse, grifters showed up, and now it's basically a worse version of hotels.

pretty underwhelming when your genius idea is to do what half a dozen other tech bro's have recently tried to do. Also, have these titans of industry considered that the reason the "everything app" keeps failing is because consumers don't want it and don't trust any company enough to accept it?

I wonder if, he thought, how can I make the user experience easier, better. Could I potentially employ people, with decent wages. I wonder if he ever wondered what user feedback on his server was. I doubt tbh. All services and jobs would be better if employers thought about that.

Exactly. F'n billionaire weirdos can never have enough. Like, just focus on making AirBnb as good of a (craptastic) rental bed and breakfast as you can make it be.. Nobody wants 1 company to control everything. COMPETITION == GOOD PRODUCTS & SERVICES.

Honestly, Airbnb should create a parent company and acquire startups which are focus on growth areas aligned with Airbnb. There are many ideas which could align with the current business and benefit their customers. Like car rental and grocery delivery.

Wild how these people have no vision, no meaning, not even any interesting tech. Just numbers. That's it. They have lots of people and they want to use them to get more.

Chesky had long believed that Airbnb should expand, but things got in the way—dealing with safety issues, fighting regulation, coping with the existential crisis of a global pandemic. Airbnb was in danger of being tagged with the word that ambitious entrepreneurs dread like the plague: mature.

wired.comBrian Chesky Lost His Mind One Night—and Now He's Relaunching Airbnb as an Everything AppAirbnb's CEO is spending hundreds of millions to relaunch his travel company as an all-purpose service app. Fitness! Food! Microdermabrasion? A WIRED exclusive.

This month, Airbnb will launch the first stage of its more than $200 million reinvention: a panoply of more than 10,000 vendors peddling a swath of services in 260 cities in 30 countries. It is also revitalizing an unsuccessful experiment the company began in 2016: “experiences.”

wired.comBrian Chesky Lost His Mind One Night—and Now He's Relaunching Airbnb as an Everything AppAirbnb's CEO is spending hundreds of millions to relaunch his travel company as an all-purpose service app. Fitness! Food! Microdermabrasion? A WIRED exclusive.

It will be interesting to see how the company handles the inevitable cases of food poisoning or bad haircuts (and skeezy customers), but Airbnb can draw on its 17 years of experience with dirty sheets, all-night discos on the ground floor, or a host who is literally terrorizing you.

wired.comBrian Chesky Lost His Mind One Night—and Now He's Relaunching Airbnb as an Everything AppAirbnb's CEO is spending hundreds of millions to relaunch his travel company as an all-purpose service app. Fitness! Food! Microdermabrasion? A WIRED exclusive.

Chesky said people used Airbnb only once or twice a year. Now the company is retooling for more frequent access. Eventually, Chesky says, Airbnb will offer “hundreds” of services, perhaps as far-ranging as plumbing, cleaning, car repair, guitar lessons, and tutoring, and then take its 15% fee.

wired.comBrian Chesky Lost His Mind One Night—and Now He's Relaunching Airbnb as an Everything AppAirbnb's CEO is spending hundreds of millions to relaunch his travel company as an all-purpose service app. Fitness! Food! Microdermabrasion? A WIRED exclusive.

Please tell him from me that he's wrecked enough neighborhoods, had plenty of fun at the expense of others' wellbeing, and made more than enough money to just go and retire now and enjoy what's left of his puny billionaire life before he gets Luigied. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

If I owned a popular company that employed a lot of people and was making money I would, simply, continue to do so without making changes that could risk the good thing I have, but then of course I am built different.

Apparently you can, like, hire rooms per night, with these people called “cleaners” who come in and spruce it up and guys called “receptionists” in a “lobby” who “check you in and out”. It’s going to be huge. It’s the next big thing in travel.

We already went down the "conglomerate corp/be everything to everyone" route with GE, Enron, Comcast and now the Xitter app... (Spoiler: it didn't/doesn't work) Companies need: PURPOSEFUL, UNWAVERING FOCUS.