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Company Analysis: Airbnb
- The founder, where originated, good, and service.
Airbnb was founded in August of 2008 and is based in San Francisco and California. Nathan Blecharczyk, Joe Gebbia, and Brine Chesky are the founders of this company. Actually, Airbnb is a room-letting website. Anyone, anywhere in the world, can list spare space (from a room to a treehouse, castle, or even a Fijian island) on the website to rent out for travelers. The houses are the good of the company, so they provide 24/7 customer support service and 1 million insurance for the host. According to date, the company has had more than 10 million nights booked in more than 19,000 cities in 192 countries, mostly in Europe.
- History information about Airbnb’s growth and management.
Airbnb started when Joe Gebbia and Brian Checky were struggling to pay their rent in 2007. There was a design conference coming to San Francisco, and the city’s hotels were fully booked, so they came up with the idea of renting out three airbeds on their living room floor and cooking their guests’ breakfast. The next day they created a website, airbedandbreakfast.com. So, they both wanted to be entrepreneurs at that time.
Therefore, they get the idea of creating a website based on renting something that was already in existence was perfect and target conferences and festivals across America, getting…
