Course: Creative Founder Instructor: Christina Wodtke Term: Fall 2016

1. Daniel Klein · Creative Founder · Fall 2016

4. Joe Gebbia
CPO & Co-Founder
Brian Chesky
CPO & Co-Founder
Nathan Blecharczyk
CPO & Co-Founder

6. There was a design conference
coming to the city, but hotels were
sold out. The size of our apartment
could easily !t airbeds on the "oor,
so we decided to rent them out.
- Joe Gebbia // Allentrepreneur // August 26th, 2009

8. We couldn't wrap our heads around
air mattresses on the living room
"oors as the next hotel room and
did not chase the deal.
- Fred Wilson // Union Square Ventures // March 16th, 2011

9. I thought the idea was crazy.
Are people really going to do this?
I would never do this.
- Paul Graham // Fast Company // February 7th, 2012

10. Market Validation 4
630,000
on temporary housing site
couchsurfing.com
17,000
temporary housing listings on SF
& NYC Craigslist from 07/09 – 07/16

11. Market Size 5
1.9 Billion+
TRIPS BOOKED (WORDLWIDE)
Total Available Market
532M
BUDGET & ONLINE TRIPS
Serviceable Available Market
10.6M
TRIPS W/AB&B
Market Share

12. $20k · Y Combinator
$600k · Sequoia Capital
$7.2M · Greylock Partners
$112M · Andreessen Horowitz
Source: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/airbnb#/entity

13. Airbnb Is Said to Be Seeking
Funding Valuing It at $30 Billion
- The New York Times // June 28th, 2016

14. HomelessnessRacial Discrimination Homelessness

15. Daniel Klein · Creative Founder · Fall 2016
Thank you

16. Image Sources:
http://s3!les.core77.com/blog/images/airbed.jpg
https://www.airbnb.com/about/founders
http://i.hu#post.com/gen/1425498/original.jpg
https://www.ted.com/talks/joe_gebbia_how_airbnb_designs_for_trust?language=en#t-172594
https://airbedandbreakfast.s3.amazonaws.com/obama_oj.jpg
https://hd.unsplash.com/photo-1447061337293-31b7f6904a20
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/11/3/1446585310962/84daa7ea-1d19-492d-
a084-39ba21a266a6-2060×1236.jpeg?w=620&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&!t=max&s=8758f57b20daef2865ae62aef54c3817
https://www.pexels.com/photo/person-woman-sitting-old-2128/
https://images.unsplash.com/40/lUUnN7VGSoWZ3noefeH7_Baker%20Beach-12.jpg?
ixlib=rb-0.3.5&q=80&fm=jpg&crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&s=3faa52735df4ac8e9e164e4d8d7bc44f
Article Sources:
https://allentrepreneur.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/travel-like-a-human-with-joe-gebbia-co-founder-of-airbnb/
http://avc.com/2011/03/airbnb/
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/airbnb#/entity
https://techcrunch.com/gallery/a-brief-history-of-airbnb/
https://growthhackers.com/growth-studies/airbnb