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Clay Finck tells the story of Airbnb and how Brian Chesky built the company from scratch to be worth over $60 billion today.
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- We Study Billionaires
Feb 27, 2023 · Brian walks us through the founding story of Airbnb, how to acquire customer loyalty, lessons in crisis management and more. #gsbvftt #gsbpodcast. In this View From The Top interview, James Yan...
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- Stanford Graduate School of Business
Dec 25, 2022 · Airbnb, Inc. is an American company that operates an online marketplace for lodging, primarily homestays for vacation rentals, and tourism activities. Airbnb...
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- The Rich Rabbit
In 2007 Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia were broke and looking to raise money to make their rent in San Francisco. They decided to rent out air mattresses in their apartment to attendees of a conference because all the hotels were booked. They called their service “Air Bed and Breakfast.”
It was a let down after he’d started to believe the high-minded rhetoric from Rhode Island School of Design that designers could “design the world around them.”. He quit that job, rolled up a foam bed into his crappy Honda Civic and moved in with his old design pal Joe Gebbia in San Francisco.
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Brian Chesky, Nathan Blecharczyk, Joe Gebbia. Possibly the only founding trio to remain in charge of a startup of this size nine years in, CEO Chesky, chief product officer Gebbia, and chief...
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May 31, 2019 · When three people showed up at their doorstep, Chesky and Gebbia thought that they may have stumbled upon a big idea. Joe Gebbia’s former roommate, Nathan Blecharczyk joined the team as one of the Airbnb founder and developed a business model around the idea.
