Note: I agree Airbnb is a service that I would have claimed will never work. Letting strangers into your house has risks more than letting them into your car. If Airbnb cracked this problem (see what the founder Joe Gebbia told us when visiting Yourstory in Bangalore), smart carpooling ...
Upselling emails are popular among accommodations sites such as Booking.com or Airbnb. Their aim is to convince subscribers to spend more on their service. They can do so e.g. either by getting the customers to stay longer at a given hotel or book a more expensive room. This way their ...
It’s not always a rule, but in most cases, if you stay in a local guest house, smaller boutique hotel, or an Airbnb apartment run by a native, the chances your money will arrive in the hands of a local owner are considerably higher than if your accommodation is booked via travel ...
a wired exclusive. steven levy whatsapp is walking a tightrope between ai features and privacy whatsapp's ai tools will use a new “private processing” system designed to allow cloud access without letting meta or anyone else see end-to-end encrypted chats. but experts still see risks. ...
Of course, there’s a business angle to this for companies, and if Stories take off for them, it is, at the end of the day, another channel for broadcasting ads and generating revenue. Instagram But the incentive to add Stories may not be as simple as it appears for a few, suggests...
use artificial intelligence and other tools to engineer exquisite levels of service, and benefit from often frictionless supply lines. Improbable business models become a reality. Facebook is now a major media player while (until recently) producing no content. Uber and Airbnb sell global mobility ...
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so the idea is to try to find a fair price for both the seller or the founder, and myself. So for me, it means, number 1, getting into the investment at a fair price and not overpaying too much. And the fair price means to me that you’re paying on fundamentals of the business...
I’m not so sure. Minimalism doesn’t fix the problem. In fact, minimalist-favorite services like AirBNB and ZipCar take the cycle of mindless consumption to the next level. Instead of making long-term savvy decisions about which dwellings and vehicles to invest in, you can now have the ...
me about my aspirations for the business. At the end of the lunch, Bill told me, “We will never invest in your company, and you don’t want our money. We’re smart guys, and at the end of the day, our goal is to turn our money into a lot more money. That’s not what y...