> 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

> 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.