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Story of Airbnb: From Air Mattresses to a Global Hospitality Empire In 2007, roommates Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia couldn’t afford rent in San Francisco. With a design conference in town and hotels fully booked, they rented out air mattresses in the

In 2008, two roommates, Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia, were struggling to pay rent in San Francisco. They decided to rent out three air mattresses in their apartment to attendees of a design conference happening in the city. They created a basic websit

From Air Mattresses to a Multi-Billion Dollar Game-Changer In 2008, roommates Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia found themselves in a classic bind: rent was due, and their bank accounts were empty. Instead of panicking, they got creative. With a major des

Starting with the startup success stories Day 1. In 2008, Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia couldn't afford rent, so they turned their living room into a bed and breakfast, offering air mattresses to guests. This led to the creation of Airbnb, now a bil

It’s only cringe until it starts working. A great example of this is Airbnb. When Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia first came up with the idea of letting people rent out air mattresses in their living rooms, many thought it was a crazy idea. Who would

Brian Chesky credits AirBnb's success to an essay Paul Graham wrote in 2008. If any founder dedicatedly focuses on the six principles that Paul mentions, it will blow off their startup. The secret to startup success lies in six principles. Let me

Hi everyone ! I need some suggestions about how can I start to work over a side hustle along with my corporate job. I want to sell home decor items via e-commerce sites but that requires too much legal formalitues like GST registration, etc. For GS

Idea For You Implement Now So guy's we all know that 60 crores ( 47% ) Indian's don't have their own home even most of them are living in streets and bad areas because they are no so rich . Even students are not able to afford rented Homes because

On the 30th, I finished my exams, excited to work on Granty, the idea I showcased. But my PC broke on the 1st and couldn’t be repaired. I considered buying a laptop, but we had just paid my engineering fees after my scholarship application was reject

After spending just 12 minutes in their office... SoftBank's CEO wrote them a $4.4B check. Less than 30 minutes later, he invested another $2B. Here's the sales pitch WeWork's founder used to convince the world's smartest investors to ignore basic