If you were to tell a non-HNer that Kayak, Booking, Priceline, CheapFlights, OpenTable, and other large websites are worth 100B
combined, I don't think they would even blink an eye.
Come here and the top discussion thread is about how little Priceline does, how they're "just middlemen", and that they don't add any value.
It's clear that HN (and techies as a whole, I assume) highly discounts the value of users, marketing, brand, and distribution.
Really is fascinating how different perspectives can be.
Come here and the top discussion thread is about how little Priceline does, how they're "just middlemen", and that they don't add any value.
It's clear that HN (and techies as a whole, I assume) highly discounts the value of users, marketing, brand, and distribution.
Really is fascinating how different perspectives can be.