What an ‘Airbnbopoly’ Game Says About Silicon Valley’s Standoff With Lina Khan

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Four years ago, one of Vice President Kamala Harris top donorsthe billionaire cofounder of LinkedIn Reid Hoffmancelebrated the IPO of Airbnb, a company he was heavily invested in, by fashioning Monopoly boards where the games jail space is replaced by government regulation...

While they often tout Harris as a business-friendly politician, theyve been vocal in their dislike of Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khans antitrust agenda..

Hoffman sent at least a handful of other investors a board game styled after Monopoly called Airbnopoly, according to images of the game obtained by WIRED..

The box is labeled as a Reid Hoffman and Greylock production, and it contains all of the pieces typically included in the classic board game, like cards, dice, and game piecesall with a travel theme..

Reid is a huge lover of board games, having played Settlers of Catan, et cetera, for many, many years, so he made a custom board game called Settlers of Silicon Valley and gifted it to many friends, says Aria Finger, podcast cohost and chief of staff for Hoffman told WIRED..