Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia and Nathan Blecharczyk, staring at the three founders of Airbnb, an online private accommodation rental market, each other across the kitchen table in her home in San Francisco. It was March 2009. A single sheet of paper sitting on the table in front of them. The three founders were on the verge of completion, the three-month program YCombinator (YC), a business accelerator in Mountain View, California.
Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia and Nathan Blecharczyk, staring at the three founders of Airbnb, an online private accommodation rental market, each other across the kitchen table in her home in San Francisco. It was March 2009. A single sheet of paper sitting on the table in front of them. The three founders were on the verge of completion, the three-month program YCombinator (YC), a business accelerator in Mountain View, California.
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Joseph B. Lassiter,
Evan Richardson
Source: Harvard Business School
20 pages.
Release Date: 28, September 2011. Prod #: 812046-PDF-ENG
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