It&#x27;s not clear couch rentals was a good stepping stone to whole unit rental; why not list whole units directly? And I&#x27;m wary of claims that grand strategies existed from the beginning, those strategies are usually post-hoc inventions.<p>In retrospect AirBnB could have been more accurately pitched as a better VRBO but there still isn&#x27;t an obvious reason why that would have been a good investment.