Conclusion
Early in fall 2015, the ads started showing up in the corridors and cars of the New York City subway, on bus shelters, and via YouTube: “Host a Runner: Meet the World.”
The ads were for Airbnb, reprising its role as the official community hospitality sponsor of the New York marathon, now formally known as the TCS New York City Marathon. Here, in one ad, was running, community, technology, and money, colliding once again, right in front of me.
Since signing on officially—Airbnb hosts were housing runners for several years before that, this just made it more formal—the company and all that it represents has only become more influential. Airbnb epitomized what the pundits in Silicon Valley called unicorns—private tech companies with ...
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