The Airbnb Story
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The Airbnb Story

Leigh Gallagher

How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions . . . and Created Plenty of Controversy

★ 4.2 (65 Ratings) ◷ 20 Minutes ☰ 8 Sections ◉ Text + audio
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The Airbnb Story (2017) tells the extraordinary tale behind the rise of Airbnb. These abstracts describe how, within about a decade, three recent college graduates went from being behind on their rent to developing the most popular vacation accommodation platform in history.

About the author

Leigh Gallagher is the assistant managing editor at Fortune. She is the host of Fortune Live and a regular guest on Marketplace, CBS This Morning, CNBC and other programs.

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  • Tech whizzes with a breakthrough business idea  
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  • Avid travelers

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