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Airbnb will build a new tech hub in Atlanta

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140 points 7d7n | 1 comments | 18 Feb 21 16:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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bitcharmer ◴[18 Feb 21 16:58 UTC] No.26182307[source]▶
Airbnb and tech hub in one sentence. Could someone explain to me what one has to do with the other?
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pb7 ◴[18 Feb 21 17:48 UTC] No.26183036[source]▶
>The new Atlanta hub will eventually house much of the company's growing technical and programming work, including a product development team.

RTFA.

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randomsearch ◴[18 Feb 21 18:59 UTC] No.26183994[source]▶
I would guess the implication might be that Airbnb isn’t a tech company but an accommodation company?

Is that fair? I don’t know. Feels like there’s a spectrum. Can’t see anything Airbnb have done that’s technically innovative, but rather their main innovation is a very novel (and much criticised) business model.

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1. pb7 ◴[18 Feb 21 19:16 UTC] No.26184199[source]▶
It literally doesn't matter what they are. They have engineers and they're building an office geared for them. They could bake bread as their business but if they build an office for the 3 software guys that build their marketing website and integrate a 3rd party inventory system while the 1,000 bakers work elsewhere, it would be their tech hub.

Don't let your hate for Airbnb pick apart every single headline.