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The Airbnb founders both maxed out their credit cards, and famously kept the lights on by selling cereal at the 2008 Republican and Democratic conventions. I be
by the_watcher 7y ago
The Airbnb founders both maxed out their credit cards, and famously kept the lights on by selling cereal at the 2008 Republican and Democratic conventions. I believe the actual idea for Airbnb spun out of them realizing it could help them pay their rent.
- dntbnmpls 7y ago> and famously kept the lights on by selling cereal at the 2008 Republican and Democratic conventions. Sounds like a great exaggerated story. > I believe the actual idea for Airbnb spun out of them realizing it could help them pay their rent. That may be, but the founders come from well to do families and I'm sure never worried about missing rent, getting evicted and being homeless. There might be rags to riches stories out there. AirBnB ain't it. It's a riches to extreme riches story.
- throwGuardian 7y agoAlmost certainly a lie. What would techcrunch write about, if the founders said something banal? Revisionist, sexy origin stories are a proven way of getting free press. Somewhere, these guys are actually confessing how much free press their wild concoction earned them