If the Shoe Fits: Is Airbnb a Good Corporate Role Model?
by Miki SaxonA Friday series exploring Startups and the people who make them go. Read all If the Shoe Fits posts here
From Napster to Uber and Airbnb, I’ve never been partial to startups whose success was based on cheating, AKA, breaking laws.
And the explanation that the law(s) are outmoded, even if true, doesn’t change my opinion.
Airbnb just introduced a new logo that was jumped on in the Twitterscape for its blatant sexual innuendo.
But that pales in comparison to its apparent theft.
Airbnb’s new logo is an exact copy of the Automation Anywhere logo, as Jay Yarow pointed out on Twitter
Automation Anywhere started life as Tethys Solutions, LLC in 2003 and rebranded as Automation Anywhere in 2012.
Perhaps Airbnb sees appropriating a logo in the same light as moving into a community and ignoring its laws.
It should be interesting.
And with a client list that includes Cisco, Harley, MasterCard, Coach, Boeing, Oracle, Intel, Virgin and dozens of others, I doubt Automation Anywhere is going to roll over any time soon.
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