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>>7d7n+(OP)
OK I'll bite. Airbnb is a website. A hard-to-navigate, overproduced one, but it's still basically just a website coupled to a database. And it's not even as complex as Uber's because it doesn't need realtime GPS tracking of anything.

Why does Airbnb need a "tech hub?"

>>dreamc+Bs1
Agreed, meanwhile large banks do things that are technically incredible but get seen as boring.

>>Guest4+Gt1
Exactly my point. I'd venture to guess that Marriott (another hotel company that actually owns their properties and thus arguably has more at stake) has a tech stack vastly more complicated than Airbnb's, and yet Marriott would never announce they're building a "tech hub" in any city.

>>dreamc+xz1
I think you are probably overestimating how enterprise does tech. Subcontracting, consultancies are the name of the game

>>bpicol+aP1
For me at least, I found banking to be incredible, teams of DBAs managing very expensive database servers to perfection and high scale web apps that almost always work correctly