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    What Everyone Can Learn from Airbnb

    I've stayed in more than 70 of them and found out a lot about business along the way.
    by Ashlea Halpern Dec 01, 2016 3 minutes
    Source: Illustration by Robin Davey

    When a four-foot snake slithered through our window, we screamed and hopped around, then chased it out with a broomstick. Next we emailed our host. We were at an Airbnb in Koh Lanta, Thailand. It took 24 hours to hear back. Locals, she wrote, believe “a snake in the home is good luck.”  Wrong answer! And wrong attitude. Let’s get one thing straight: For all of Airbnb’s live-like-a-local propaganda, it’s about paying money to

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