I'm really sad hearing about the layoff announcement from Airbnb. My heart goes out to those unfortunate employees today and the CEO Brian. It must've been a very hard decision for him.
Airbnb was once rivaling Google FB and the like talent+comp+culture wise. It put the other "As" Apple and Amazon to shame in FAANGMULLA. Even among Chinese people the "A" in FLAG referred to Airbnb.
From a product perspective we all used it at least once. Let's be honest here. This was a game changer for those of us who loved to travel.
I don't think it's fair to hate on Airbnb ex/employees when they need support now more than ever. I can't imagine what the founding members must feel right now. This is definitely going down in the history books as the biggest IPO failure ever of all time. This is a sad time indeed for the tech industry...
EDIT: Not sure why there's still a lot of hate here. Of course I feel bad for people who were laid off in other companies as well. I specifically called out Airbnb because I noticed a lot of hate towards them. Also I love traveling and I used Airbnb a lot. I also own a single property and use Airbnb to rent it out. I love Airbnb and I'm genuinely upset they fell like this. Sorry for offending anyone. It's not my intent.
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These guys who lost their jobs were making <0.01% than the company, senior board itself. Their lay offs don't change shit around society, you'll still see Uber and Airbnb around. Those execs will continue printing money while peasants will be happy celebrating fall of one another.
We should all encourage, not discourage, empathizing for anyone laid off, sick, having a hard time, etc. Doesn't matter if they're a janitor, a SWE or a CEO. Doesn't matter if they work for a company you consider "evil" (people throw that word around way too much) or a company that no one can say anything bad about.
There are morally superior companies and morally inferior ones, but that isn't a good reason to harass their employees for expressing empathy.
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