Three airbeds, cereal boxes, and a missed Y Combinator deadline
Brian Chesky remembers a 2008 Thai-restaurant dinner where Justin.tv’s founders pushed a stalled Airbnb to apply to Y Combinator after the deadline. The company had launched three times with no traction, funded itself with credit-card binders and Obama O’s, and later described a pandemic decline of nearly 80 percent.
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