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Air BNB Started as a tool for renting rooms in cities during conferences, where hosts were expected to provide no more than an air mattress. Pivoted to full o
by bjrobz 4y ago
Air BNB
Started as a tool for renting rooms in cities during conferences, where hosts were expected to provide no more than an air mattress.
Pivoted to full on house renting.
Chesky talks about it all here in the blitzscaling series, an interview series conducted by Reid Hoffman:
https://youtu.be/W608u6sBFpo https://youtu.be/W608u6sBFpo
- bze12 4y agothat doesn't really seem like a pivot, moreso a big expansion of their original niche
- bjrobz 4y agoYea, the story is still interesting, how they chose that path. Highly recommend watching the link i provided.
- robocat 4y agoHardly a pivot. Paul Graham’s write-up on their very early days: https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/the-airbnbs https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/the-airbnbs and a pretty gushing wired article about how AirBnB got into ycombinator: https://www.wired.com/2017/02/airbnbs-surprising-path-to-y-combinator/ https://www.wired.com/2017/02/airbnbs-surprising-path-to-y-c...
- rparmar 4y agoThis is perhaps the best talk I've ever heard on startups, ever. Chesky is such a good story teller and Reid Hoffman is such a great interviewer. I think a lot of founders would benefit from watching this.
- swyx 4y agonarrative fallacy is a cruel master though.
- swyx 4y agoI mean if we're going with Airbnb then might as well mention Uber's pivot from black car service to ridesharing (along with new CEO.. basically rebooting the company)