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Parties in the homes and properties listed are now banned. Boo.

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Airbnb suspended their business in Russia and Belarus due to the conflict in Ukraine and the sanctions put in place.

Stopped operations in China because of their Zero-COVID policy and because Airbnb was accused of being too willing to give up the info. This led to the resignation of an airbnb executive who was actually a former deputy director of the FBI.

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When Covid hit, their bookings dropped down 96% in some cities. The company laid off 1,900 employees (25% of its workforce) in several continents.

Their shares went up in December of the same year.

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Airbnb created a film called Gay Chorus Deep South. They sold the rights to Airbnb.

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It was reported that two million people were staying in a listing on Airbnb a night.

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Former Attorney General Eric Holder was hired by Airbnb to help craft the anti-discrimination policy to stop hosts from biasing against guests whose names suggested that they were a different race

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Airbnb introduced a new logo

They expanded to Cuba after the US eased up on restrictions of owning businesses there. They were the first US business to expand there.

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By this time, they served 9,000,000 guests with nearly 250,000 listings

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Airbnb won the 'app' award.

Airbnb launched 'Neighborhoods' a travel guide of 23 cities

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80% of 700,000 nights booked happened within six months

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The site had 10,000 users and 2,500 listings.

The name was shortened to Airbnb.com. By this time, listings included entire rooms and properties.

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They had their first customers after making a website.

They also made $30,000 selling cereal named after the two presidential candidates, Barack Obama and John McCain.

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Nathan Blecharczyk, Chesky's former roommate, became a third co-founder of it, which they named AirBed and Breakfast.

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Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia came up with an idea of putting an air mattress in their living room and using it as a bed and breakfast.