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> It all starts with his charismatic founder Brian Chesky.

Airbnb is not a man.

> The awkwardness was unbearable. It was then when he realized that Airbnb had to handle payments in-house.

This story makes no sense. Why did he agree to pay cash every day instead of paying up front? Why couldn't he write a check? Why was it awkward? And most importantly, what does this have to do with bringing payments in house? Why couldn't Airbnb just integrate a payment processor?

Maybe trying asking chatGPT to help you write/proofread this. I think it would come out much better.

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> Then how does Airbnb have leaned into a service oriented architecture and still managed to pull it off?

"Then how did Airbnb lean into a service oriented architecture and still manage to pull it off?"

Although it's still not a great sentence, since you talk about distributed systems in the previous paragraph and service oriented architecture in this one, it feels like you're trying to throw buzzwords around. You could simplify it to "Then how did Airbnb pull it off?"

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