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Not really. She qualified herself by saying: 1. she uses it all the time. 2. she hates it.

As a founder, I am always looking for that combination in my users.

The bonus was offering herself as the solution. I'll venture that his decision was made even before she finished the sentence.




But I don't want to fix Air BnB's problems, I want to see them die in fire. I use it all the time, but I can't resist the urge to work there and burn the place to ground.


It appears that so far you have, in fact, resisted that urge.

(Or maybe you haven't, but they wouldn't hire you. That would have been an interesting interview. "So, Mr X, where do you see yourself in this business in five years time?" "In a prison cell nearby, looking out through the bars at the smoking ruins and laughing.")


Why?


https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6507718 will suffice. If I think about it, I will start to get sick to my stomach.




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