Airbnb

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Airbnb, Inc.
Public
Traded asNASDAQ: ABNB
IndustryLodging
FoundedAugust 2008; 13 years ago (2008-08) in San Francisco, California
FounderBrian Chesky
Joe Gebbia
Nathan Blecharczyk
HeadquartersSan Francisco, California
Area served
Worldwide
ServicesLodging
Hospitality
RevenueDecrease $3.378 billion (2020)
Decrease -$4.584 billion (2020)
Total assetsIncrease $10.491 billion (2020)
Total equityIncrease $2.901 billion (2020)
Number of employees
5,597 (2020)
Websiteairbnb.com
Footnotes / references
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Airbnb is an online service for lodging. The name means AirBed and Breakfast.[3][4][5] It is available in 190 countries.[6][7]

It is based in San Francisco, California.

Overview[change | change source]

Airbnb clients have the opportunity to give for rent their housing partially or fully to different travelers. The site provides a platform for establishing contact between the owner and the guest. Airbnb is also responsible for money payments. Airbnb offers housing in 65,000 cities in 191 countries of the world.[8] From the moment of founding in August 2008 and until April 2017, more than 150 million people have found housing through the Airbnb website.

History[change | change source]

Airbnb was founded in 2008 by Brian Chesky, Nathan Blecharczyk and Joe Gebbia.[9][10][11][12] The offices were in San Francisco, then in Hamburg and Berlin.[13]

The company had 21 funding rounds and got $6B in total.[14][15][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]

In 2011, the service won an app award on the South by Southwest conference.[23]

In October 2011, the first international office in London was opened.[24]

In 2012, the company made new locations in Paris, Milan, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Moscow, Sydney, Singapore and São Paulo.[25][26][27][28]

In 2015, the office in Cuba was launched.[29][30]

In 2018, Airbnb Plus and Beyond by Airbnb services were announced to appear.[31][32]

In 2020, Airbnb became a public company.[33]

References[change | change source]

  1. ↑ "Company Overview of Airbnb, Inc". Bloomberg L.P. January 7, 2018. Archived from the original on January 8, 2018. Retrieved January 8, 2018.
  2. ↑ "Airbnb, Inc. 2020 Form 10-K Annual Report". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
  3. ↑ "AirBed And Breakfast Takes Pad Crashing To A Whole New Level". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  4. ↑ Geron, Tomio (2009-06-10). "From Crash Pad To Pizza Profitable, Start-Up Eyes Budget Travel Market". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  5. ↑ "Why is it Called Airbnb? | Rewind & Capture". Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  6. ↑ Benner, Katie (2017-05-02). "Airbnb Settles Lawsuit With Its Hometown, San Francisco". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  7. ↑ "Financial Times - Airbnb". www.ft.com. Retrieved 2021-05-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ↑ "Airbnb: Most Innovative Company". Fast Company. Retrieved 2021-07-14.
  9. ↑ Aydin, Rebecca. "How 3 guys turned renting air mattresses in their apartment into a $31 billion company, Airbnb". Business Insider. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  10. ↑ McCann, Chris (2015-12-08). "Scaling Airbnb with Brian Chesky — Class 18 Notes of Stanford University's CS183C". Medium. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  11. ↑ "New License to Explore: Airbnb's Nathan Blecharczyk '05". Harvard Alumni. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  12. ↑ Drell, Lauren. "How Do Co-Founders Meet? 17 Startups Tell All". Mashable. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  13. ↑ "Airbnb Checks In With Springstar For International Expansion". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  14. ↑ "Series D - Airbnb - 2014-04-16 - Crunchbase Funding Round Profile". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Austin, Scott (2011-07-25). "Airbnb: From Y Combinator To $112M Funding In Three Years". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  16. ↑ Gallagher, Leigh (2017-02-14). The Airbnb Story: How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions . . . and Created Plenty of Controversy. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-544-95387-1.
  17. ↑ Wortham, Jenna (2010-11-10). "Airbnb Raises Cash to Expand Budget-Travel Service". Bits Blog. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  18. ↑ Malik, Om (2011-07-24). "AirBnB gets $112M in new investment". gigaom.com. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  19. ↑ "Airbnb closes $475 million funding round". Fortune. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  20. ↑ Thomas, Lauren (2017-03-09). "Airbnb just closed a $1 billion round and became profitable in 2016". CNBC. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  21. ↑ Batchelor, Deirdre Bosa,Laura (2020-04-06). "Airbnb is raising $1 billion amid fallout from coronanvirus". CNBC. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  22. ↑ Shapiro, Ariel. "With IPO Plans Looking Shaky, Airbnb Raises $1 Billion In Funding". Forbes. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  23. ↑ Black, Tiffany (2011-03-15). "Airbnb Mobile App Stands Out at SXSW". Inc.com. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  24. ↑ "Airbnb set to expand with London office". www.telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  25. ↑ "Airbnb: 5 Million Nights Booked, Opening 6 New International Offices In Q1 2012". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  26. ↑ Ong, Josh (2012-11-02). "Airbnb launches in Australia with new office in Sydney, coming soon to Thailand and Indonesia". TNW | Asia. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  27. ↑ LeMay, Renai (2012-11-05). "Airbnb officially launches in Australia". Delimiter. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  28. ↑ Russell, Jon (2012-11-21). "Airbnb targets 2 million properties in Asia as it begins introducing local customer support". TNW | Asia. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  29. ↑ "Airbnb in Cuba". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2021-05-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  30. ↑ Macias, Amanda. "Here's what it's like to stay in a Cuban Airbnb, where everything looked great but was actually broken". Business Insider. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  31. ↑ Sims, Amanda. "The Secret to Getting Your Home on Airbnb Plus". Architectural Digest. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  32. ↑ "Airbnb Plus and Everything CEO Brian Chesky Just Announced". Skift. 2018-02-22. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  33. ↑ "Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky could be worth over $11 billion after IPO". Fortune. Retrieved 2021-05-14.

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