Of incidents, he had to completely change Overcome the tempestuous opposition of numerous towns, involving legal battles against all sorts of It took Chesky great resilience to achieve this. Since 2008, 150 million travelers have stayed in three million different hosts’ homes in nearly 200 countries. To summarize Chesky, in Emerson’s book, this was accomplished by ‘bringing the world back They thought it was crazy.’įounder from Debt to Darling, one of the investors even wentĪirbnb from launching the first peer-to-peer Chesky recalls: ‘People did not think strangers would Jean-Marie Dru explains that, for a company that doesn’t own its main tangible asset – rooms for rent – the ad campaigns have added value to what does constitute its most valuable intangible asset: its brandĬapitalists in the summer of 2008, none believed for an instant A little bit of utopia can’t do any harm. A world without strangers, now that’s a promising purpose. Airbnb does not settle for just putting guests in contact with hosts it dreams of a world where anyone can belong anywhere.

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