Airbnbis a community led accommodation marketplace that enables avid travellers to book an array of lodging all over the world online and via a smartphone or tablet. The company, based in San Francisco was founded in 2008 and has since exploded onto the travel industry through their unique app...
who co-founded the grass-roots activist group, Restore Homeowner Autonomy & Rights NYC, in May. A door separates her living quarters from the rental unit. Under the new rules, she will have to unlock that door. A week before the law’s start date, she was still undecided about whether ...
The Internet Explorer browser -- available on Windows from 1995-2015 -- was replaced by Microsoft Edge on Windows 10. After inventing the web, Tim Berners-Lee also founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a nonprofit international consortium that aims to standardize the web through specifica...
And I was already starting to make hard choices in my third year when I was a consultant. One day, I literally called in sick because I wanted to go try out for “So You Think You Can Dance.” So I took this half step. I took a job at Warner Music Group. One thing I got ...
Airbnb Airbnb, a community marketplace for people to list and book accommodations worldwide, was founded in 2008 out of San Francisco, California. Since then, Airbnb has grown to7+ million listingsin 34,000+ cities worldwide. A significant contributor to the company's explosive global success...
While at Y Combinator, Graham funded hundreds of startups, as spots in the incubator became increasingly rare and coveted. Over his career he’s worked with the likes ofAirbnbcofounder Brian Chesky,Dropboxcofounders Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, and the Coll...
the founder of AirBnB was proud to be treated as such by the founder of YCombinator:Surprisingly, Paul [graham] said, “If you can convince people to pay $40 for a $4 box of cereal, maybe you can get strangers to stay in other strangers’ homes.” He also liked that we were resil...
t reply back to every single @Mike tweet they post. I’d like to think of them as my fan club.”@Jon– aka, Jon Wheatley – knows his pain. “Probably 90 percent of the people who ‘@jon’ [me] are false positives,” says the start-up exec, who founded the Airbnb-acquired ...
Browsing through Airbnb’s supply, we encountered this particular room at $22 CAD a night. While cheap, this was definitely a no-frills kind of place (we even had to bring our own pillows). Bathrooms were communal as well in this 5 room house so in a lot of ways it was like a ...
Thankfully, we came to Iceland for none of the above, but to appreciate the country for its beauty and this is priceless. Maria Helena was the perfect host at our Airbnb accommodation, and we left with amazing memories of our time in this fantastic city. ...