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May 31, 2019 · Immediately, Chesky and Gebbia launched a simple website – airbedandbreakfast.com, and offered airbeds and a homemade breakfast for $80 each night. When three people showed up at their doorstep, Chesky and Gebbia thought that they may have stumbled upon a big idea.
We figured if we’re called Air Bed and Breakfast, we should have a breakfast that we could offer to people at the convention. We weren’t going to send them perishables, so we wanted to make a breakfast cereal for them.
- Sarah Lacy
May 12, 2023 · What special edition cereals did Chesky and his co-founders create to obtain funding for Airbnb? Chesky and his co-founders created special edition cereals named “Cap’n McCains” and “Obama O’s” based on the presidential candidate’s John McCain and Barack Obama.
Oct 5, 2023 · Creative Problem-Solving: When faced with financial difficulties, Chesky and his co-founder Joe Gebbia came up with the idea of creating Barack Obama-themed breakfast cereal to raise money.
- Sami Osman
Mar 31, 2023 · In a stroke of creativity, Chesky and Gebbia decided to focus on the breakfast side of their business and created presidential-themed breakfast cereals, “The Obama O’s; The Breakfast of Change” and “Captain McCain’s; A Maverick in Every Bite”.
Aug 15, 2020 · By pitching the product as a limited-edition collector item, they sold them for $40 a box. Weirdly enough, they ended up selling $30,000 of cereal. And that’s how they remained afloat. With this newly found reputation, they jokingly created the slogan “Be a Cereal Entrepreneur.”
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Aug 18, 2016 · CEO Brian Chesky and co-founders Nathan Blecharczyk and Joe Gebbia are credited with disrupting an industry, displacing the most established players in hospitality, and generated billions of dollars in revenue for themselves, and their users. As with all good success stories, this one comes from humble beginnings.
