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isn't it turning out to be a bad idea?

Not for Brian, no.

Even if Airbnb ceases to exist tomorrow, I am fairly certain that Brian is gonna be in a better spot than he would have been in if he listened to his mom.

Oh yeah he will be of course. It's the rest of the world that won't be.

Not so sure. Not trying to defend Brian or AirBnB, but realistically, it was bound to happen, just like Uber was.

Perhaps under a different name with a different path, but I am fairly certain that the ending would have been the same. And there are definitely lessons to be learned form this. And honestly, it could've been much worse, so I am ok with those lessons being learner earlier rather than later. I think they were pretty useful.

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