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Hospitality companies such as Airbnb, Sonder, this kind of hospitality platforms, Are they tech companies? How do you draw a line between tech and nontech. What determines Tech vs Nontech?
Is the primary innovation coming from technology? If yes, it’s a tech company.
At that rate even nike is tech company since they use cad to design shoes which is a technology. Same with banks.
The primary innovation is still probably in manufacturing and materials to keep the cost low and quality bar high etc Banks are slowly getting tech-ish for sure!
No, it’s a design and social company
Is the engineering department a cost center or a profit center? If it's cost, not a tech company, but it's profit, then it is a tech company. In my opinion that's a more useful definition because it shows you how much the company values you.
Telecommunications companies are definitely tech companies then.
Just curious, what tech innovations came out of Airbnb?
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Design company
For the purposes of Blind, if it has tech company TC
What percent of the company and senior management (C suite preferable) are engineers. There may be exceptions but a good heuristic
No. Airbnb is just a glorified Expedia
Thanks!...or maybe not :(
1. Risk mitigation. Connecting online signals to offline risk to prevent bad actors offline. It’s a relatively unique problem in hospitality, and our investment in ML to prevent bad things from happening is significant. 2. Payments. We process transactions in 190+ countries. Can’t really comment much on this but there’s some magic beyond just hooking up to payment processors. Will prolly be addressed in the S-1. Beyond that it’s not that complicated, but it’s not as simple as a mere CRUD app, as much as it looks like it.
Not at all. I can’t speak about Sonder but after working at Airbnb, it isn’t a tech company. Product decisions are made strictly for clout from a heavy marketing and a visual design perspective. Engineering and data science were not respected partners and even senior leaders in those functions didn’t have much of a voice in a culture that was “design led” in a very top down manner. You don’t join Airbnb to get better as an engineer or even product designer.
Google and certain arms of Microsoft
By that logic, nothing is a tech company, right? Google is a website recommendation engine. Msft is electronics company Fb is social media Amazon is retail Nflx is media and production On and on ...
Actually no, Any Saas is tech since they sell software. Google msft amazon nflx all tech for sure. Amazon because of AWS
Okay. What does saas do?