Analysis

January 2, 2023

Will this market downturn birth the next Airbnb?

They say that crisis breeds opportunity. But is that really true?


Katja Nettesheim

The LinkedIn take du jour on tech’s bruising 2022 is, of course, one of optimism. 

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Dmitry Samoylovskikh, founder of Uniborn
Dmitry Samoylovskikh, founder of Uniborn
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Claude Ritter, founding partner at Cavalry Ventures and former Delivery Hero cofounder
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Miriam Partington

Miriam Partington was a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covered the DACH region and the future of work, and wrote Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup.

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