Ubering to the Airbnb... and coordinating the Grubhub delivery for check-in — aka: tech saturation Level Insanity. Uber and Airbnb have a lot in common: both are popular sharing platforms, both are used as verbs, and both crushed old-school industries (taxis + hotels).
5 stars for verb-iness... Uber and Airbnb don't actually specialize in rides and stays — their value is safety, convenience, and reliability (and the tech that powers them). Pre-2009, riding in a stranger's car was #1 on the list of things your parents said you shouldn't do. Now, many don't think twice about hopping into one at 1 am. Airbnb has made booking a stranger's condo as normal and predictable as ordering from Amazon (always stalk the reviews).
Airbnb and Uber should go full horizontal... That is, they should expand to sharing and delivering anything (legal). With its trusted brand and platform, Airbnb could expand from home-sharing to "anything-sharing" — think: parking spaces, storage space, boats, and RVs. Uber has expanded from delivering people to delivering food. Now it's dabbling with medication and package deliveries in select cities — we think it should go all-in on "delivery anything."