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Both Jony Ive and Hiroki Asai were Steve Jobs' right hand men. Airbnb is simply a travel company, why pay up the ass for these two costly employees? I get it if they have competitors in their space, but they are essentially the only company in town. Why waste so much money on marketing and design?
They do have competitors, and evidently they consider design and marketing to be a key differentiator. This seems reasonable to me. It is a lot more surprising to me that they pay so much for so many expensive engineers.
As others have pointed out, there's a lot of competitors in this space and more will arise in the coming years. Since it isn't really something you can take a proprietary technology approach to, other differentiators are needed to set them apart.
The CEO is a designer. It is not surprising that they are paying one of the top firm to help. It may also help for the IPO.
Airbnb is a design company