This Indian-born guy was the first ever AirBnB guest
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What do you do when you HAVE TO attend an important event in a new city, and most It was October 2007, and Amol had to attend the International Designer’s Conference in San Francisco. Too bad the hotels were charging over $ 300. He couldn’t make it there without a good hotel deal, and found a site.
“I found this website called Air
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So Nathan moved out, and AirBnB started.
“It wasn’t much of a bedroom. There were no beds, so instead of calling it a bed and breakfast, Joe put on an air bed, and called it air bed and breakfast”, Nathan says. Amol paid $80 a night, stayed for 5 nights and became the first of 80 million AirBnB guests.
That weekend the trio hosted three guests, a 35 year old woman from Boston, a father of four from Utah and Amol. They made a cool $1000. Later the boys sat thinking if such a diverse group found their offering interesting, there could be a real business opportunity there.
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