Congratulation to PG! Seems like working with top scammer from the FBI list that you and I had to pay in our taxes for their damages, is finally paying off!
Sounds like this could be an interesting comment, but needs substance and a link or two, instead of sarcasm and malice. No one knows what you are talking about... I vaguely suspected you were referring to that one isolated incident long ago where a woman had her apartment trashed by some renters.
According to Dave Gooden, AirBnB had a growth hacker who did her magic via email. "girlsname04@gmail.com" was her address.
She harvested emails from people adveritising on craigslist and sent out thousands of emails. Some call that unsolicited bulk commercial email. Some call is spam. Others call it growth hacking.
Remember, wise man say startups need <em> high growth </em>.
Founding startup is like being research scientist. Science!
"girlsname04@gmail.com", an unsung hero of AirBnB.
Harvard grad gets shut down by FTC for sending porn-related spam from custom-built spam machine in his dorm room. Earns some nice coin. Moves on to greener pastures:- doing the dirty work for internet venture capitalists. Say hello to the CTO of AirBnB.
Ivy League indeed.
The eventual victim is untimately the public investor if there's an IPO or the naive acquirer... because these businesses are not built to last long enough to provide the return on investment the public expects, nor to cover the inevitable charge the acquirer has to take.
These petty criminals doing the dirty work for internet VC are young with many years ahead of them to regain their reputation. But time may not heal bad reputations as well as it used to... because the internet never forgets.
I don't wish anyone bad, but if one day your family too will be bomb by foreign troops and you will wake up in a hospital and see your daughter without arms and legs, you too will understand that.
Details please. Maybe you cannot name names but give us a clue.
There's no way AirBnB is going to try to IPO after the Facebook debacle. They must entice someone to acquire them.
The higher the valuation the more enticing. Pump it up!
Pop, there goes a bottle of Dom Pérignon!