📈 Airbnb re-rates from tech multiple to consumer cyclical
Chamath's read of Airbnb's six-month drawdown: holders have decided it is not a technology business but a tech-enabled consumer business whose earnings ebb and flow with discretionary spending. No amount of product investment changes that, so the multiple compresses toward travel/consumer-cyclical comps and the stock trades on the consumer-spending cycle rather than product quality.
⚖ Why this result
fully deterministic — computed from daily closes on the scoring date; nothing below is editable or hand-set
- Window: 2024-09-06 → 2025-09-06 — first mention + 12-month horizon, then the window locks.
- The call: ▼ SHORT ABNB (primary play). ABNB rose 8.3% over the window → return (sign flipped for a SHORT) = -8.3% (the call lost money).
- Benchmark: holding SPY over the same window returned +21.3%
→ vs SPY = -8.3 − (+21.3) = -29.6%
— what this call made or lost against just owning the index. This is the number the result uses.
Direction-only read: +12.9% — did ABNB move the predicted way relative to the market. The two only differ on a SHORT: this call was right about direction relative to the index but still cost money versus holding it.
- Rule fired:
· RIGHT — return ≥ +10% AND beat SPY by 5+· HALF — return ≥ +5% OR beat SPY at all▶ WRONG — everything else
- Credit: supporters of a WRONG earn 0 each, opposers the opposite — this feeds the scoreboard. supported: Chamath
Conviction timeline
bands: green ≥ 65 · watch ≥ 45 · ember ≥ 15
Plays vs SPY · % since first mention (2024-09-06)
Plays
| expression | symbol | kind | relevance | rationale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▼ SHORT | ABNB | stock | PRIMARY | the named company being re-rated from tech to consumer cyclical |
| ▼ SHORT | BKNG | stock | adjacent | same discretionary travel-spend cycle he says Airbnb now trades on |
| ▼ SHORT | EXPE | stock | adjacent | online travel comp set the multiple compresses toward |
| ▼ SHORT | XLY | etf | adjacent | consumer discretionary complex is the bucket he says Airbnb has been moved into |
Mention log newest first
“It's telling you that the people that own it have realized that it's less of a technology business and it's more of a cyclical business that ebbs and flows with the ability to spend money on behalf of the consumer.”
Who built this conviction
each voice's total push on the score, in conviction points across every mention — supports and opposes · share = % of all mention-driven movement
⏳ decay drained -29.4 over the idea's life — that's time passing, attributed to no one
Score events
| episode | kind | Δ | after | note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| E195 2024-09-06 | init | +35.0 | 35.0 | E195 born by Chamath (explicit_prediction x2) |
| E196 2024-09-20 | decay | -1.4 | 33.6 | E196 silent |
| E197 2024-09-27 | decay | -1.3 | 32.3 | E197 silent |
| E198 2024-10-03 | decay | -1.3 | 31.0 | E198 silent |
| E199 2024-10-11 | decay | -1.2 | 29.7 | E199 silent |
| E200 2024-10-18 | decay | -1.2 | 28.5 | E200 silent |
| E201 2024-10-25 | decay | -1.1 | 27.4 | E201 silent |
| E202 2024-11-01 | decay | -1.1 | 26.3 | E202 silent |
| E203 2024-11-08 | decay | -1.1 | 25.2 | E203 silent |
| E204 2024-11-16 | decay | -1.0 | 24.2 | E204 silent |
| E205 2024-11-23 | decay | -1.0 | 23.3 | E205 silent |
| E206 2024-12-07 | decay | -0.9 | 22.3 | E206 silent |
| E207 2024-12-13 | decay | -0.9 | 21.4 | E207 silent |
| E208 2024-12-20 | decay | -0.9 | 20.6 | E208 silent |
| E209 2025-01-04 | decay | -0.8 | 19.8 | E209 silent |
| E210 2025-01-11 | decay | -0.8 | 19.0 | E210 silent |
| E211 2025-01-18 | decay | -0.8 | 18.2 | E211 silent |
| E212 2025-01-25 | decay | -0.7 | 17.5 | E212 silent |
| E213 2025-01-31 | decay | -0.7 | 16.8 | E213 silent |
| E214 2025-02-07 | decay | -0.7 | 16.1 | E214 silent |
| E215 2025-02-15 | decay | -0.6 | 15.5 | E215 silent |
| E216 2025-02-21 | decay | -0.6 | 14.9 | E216 silent |
| E217 2025-03-01 | decay | -0.6 | 14.3 | E217 silent |
| E218 2025-03-08 | decay | -0.6 | 13.7 | E218 silent |
| E219 2025-03-15 | decay | -0.5 | 13.1 | E219 silent |
| E220 2025-03-22 | decay | -0.5 | 12.6 | E220 silent |
| E221 2025-03-29 | decay | -0.5 | 12.1 | E221 silent |
| E222 2025-04-05 | decay | -0.5 | 11.6 | E222 silent |
| E223 2025-04-11 | decay | -0.5 | 11.2 | E223 silent |
| E224 2025-04-19 | decay | -0.4 | 10.7 | E224 silent |
| E225 2025-04-26 | decay | -0.4 | 10.3 | E225 silent |
| E226 2025-05-02 | decay | -0.4 | 9.9 | E226 silent |
| E227 2025-05-09 | decay | -0.4 | 9.5 | E227 silent |
| E228 2025-05-17 | decay | -0.4 | 9.1 | E228 silent |
| E229 2025-05-24 | decay | -0.4 | 8.7 | E229 silent |
| E231 2025-06-13 | decay | -0.3 | 8.4 | E231 silent |
| E232 2025-06-21 | decay | -0.3 | 8.1 | E232 silent |
| E233 2025-06-28 | decay | -0.3 | 7.7 | E233 silent |
| E234 2025-07-04 | decay | -0.3 | 7.4 | E234 silent |
| E235 2025-07-11 | decay | -0.3 | 7.1 | E235 silent |
| E236 2025-07-19 | decay | -0.3 | 6.8 | E236 silent |
| E237 2025-08-01 | decay | -0.3 | 6.6 | E237 silent |
| E238 2025-08-09 | decay | -0.3 | 6.3 | E238 silent |
| E239 2025-08-15 | decay | -0.3 | 6.0 | E239 silent |
| E240 2025-08-22 | decay | -0.2 | 5.8 | E240 silent |
| E241 2025-08-29 | decay | -0.2 | 5.6 | E241 silent |