30 October 2018: In 2008, three young college graduates were creatively trying to find ways to make money in an effort to pay their rent.
What started as a simple solution to avoid eviction 10 years ago, has since grown into a multi-billion dollar corporation that transformed the travel and tourism industries across the globe.
In its first year of life, Airbnb hosted roughly 400 guests. Now, after 10 years, roughly 400 guests check in to an Airbnb every two minutes, that’s a check-in increase of 26,280,000%. Mind = blown.
5 million listings in 191 countries
Joined by Anna Skigin from Airbnb management company Frank Porter.
She left behind careers in finance and retail to self-fund a concept that tackles a gap in the new and emerging 'sharing economy'.