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📈 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.

0 CONVICTION
peaked 35.0 EMBER
DORMANT
band
▼ SHORT ABNB
expression · bearish equities
WRONG
result · return -8.3% · vs SPY -29.6%
2025-09-06
born 2024-09-06 (E195) → window closed

⚖ Why this result

fully deterministic — computed from daily closes on the scoring date; nothing below is editable or hand-set

  1. Window: 2024-09-06 → 2025-09-06 — first mention + 12-month horizon, then the window locks.
  2. 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).
  3. 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.
  4. Rule fired:
    · RIGHT — return ≥ +10% AND beat SPY by 5+
    · HALF — return ≥ +5% OR beat SPY at all
    ▶ WRONG — everything else
  5. 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

expressionsymbolkindrelevancerationale
▼ SHORT ABNBstock PRIMARY the named company being re-rated from tech to consumer cyclical
▼ SHORT BKNGstock adjacent same discretionary travel-spend cycle he says Airbnb now trades on
▼ SHORT EXPEstock adjacent online travel comp set the multiple compresses toward
▼ SHORT XLYetf adjacent consumer discretionary complex is the bucket he says Airbnb has been moved into

Mention log newest first

Chamath
Chamath equities 42% · n=163 · E195 (2024-09-06) · explicit_prediction · strength 2 ▶ 26:03 SUPPORT
“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

Chamath
Chamath 42%
1 scoring event · 100% of moves
+35.0 → net +35.0

⏳ decay drained -29.4 over the idea's life — that's time passing, attributed to no one

Score events

episodekindΔafternote
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