Also the website back then was airbedandbreakfast.com, way too long and complex of a domain. Couchsurfing was huge, and I guess investors didn't think a paid ve

Also the website back then was airbedandbreakfast.com, way too long and complex of a domain. Couchsurfing was huge, and I guess investors didn't think a paid version of it would take off if a free version existed. At least that's how I thought about it when I rejected Joe's offer to work on the site in 2008.