Can you believe the home-rental site that lists properties in 30,000 cities across 192 countries once had trouble raising $20,000? Now it is valued at $2.5 billion.
Attention Travel Junkies: Nathan Blecharczyk (far left), Brian Chesky (middle), and Joe Gebbia's start-up Airbnb is hosting travelers in 30,000 cities in 192 countries around the world.
In many ways, Airbnb is the classic story of Silicon Valley: A clever product, a massive market, and--as one investor would later say--founders who just "won't die."
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