Uber does not have meaningful network effects. Airbnb does. A competitor would need to be more than marginally better to compete subscale, as Airbnb was vs craigslist or original vrbo.
There is an entire blog dedicated to the topic of tech at Airbnb: http://nerds.airbnb.com/. Perhaps you will still feel the same after reading this? Peter Thiel's Zero To One described four pillars that were necessary…
Uber does not have meaningful network effects. Airbnb does. A competitor would need to be more than marginally better to compete subscale, as Airbnb was vs craigslist or original vrbo.
There is an entire blog dedicated to the topic of tech at Airbnb: http://nerds.airbnb.com/. Perhaps you will still feel the same after reading this? Peter Thiel's Zero To One described four pillars that were necessary…