- Airbnb's CEO Brian Chesky is spending hundreds of millions to relaunch his travel company as an everything app. Fitness! Food! Microdermabrasion? A WIRED exclusive:
May 13, 2025 18:36
- Chesky had long believed that Airbnb should expand, but things got in the way—dealing with safety issues, fighting regulation, coping with the existential crisis of a global pandemic. Airbnb was in danger of being tagged with the word that ambitious entrepreneurs dread like the plague: mature.
- This month, Airbnb will launch the first stage of its more than $200 million reinvention: a panoply of more than 10,000 vendors peddling a swath of services in 260 cities in 30 countries. It is also revitalizing an unsuccessful experiment the company began in 2016: “experiences.”
- It will be interesting to see how the company handles the inevitable cases of food poisoning or bad haircuts (and skeezy customers), but Airbnb can draw on its 17 years of experience with dirty sheets, all-night discos on the ground floor, or a host who is literally terrorizing you.
- Boycotting Airbnb. Fuck the DOGE billionaires screwing over Americans.
- Apparently you can, like, hire rooms per night, with these people called “cleaners” who come in and spruce it up and guys called “receptionists” in a “lobby” who “check you in and out”. It’s going to be huge. It’s the next big thing in travel.
- I smell a chapter 11 bankruptcy filing
- Never using Airbnb again! Too friendly with this admin.
- Fuck Airbnb www.forbes.com/sites/johnhy...
How much for the "dental experience with well-known town dentist?"- Nah, I'm good.
- "Still wired out of his mind from the cathartic corporate rescue" Hmmm.....
- Not giving that fascist my money for anything g
- Already have an everything app on my phone: a web browser.
- Gag reflex activated
