The founders had their first customers in the summer of 2008, during the Industrial Design Conference held by Industrial Designers Society of America, where travelers had a hard time finding lodging in the city. The site officially launched on August 11, 2008. They put together a website that offered short-term living quarters and breakfast for those who were unable to book a hotel in the saturated market. In February 2008, Nathan Blecharczyk, Chesky's former roommate, joined as the Chief Technology Officer and the third co-founder of the new venture, which they named AirBed & Breakfast. Obviously, a stay of 2 nights will require a lot less cleaning (and turnover of sheets, towels, etc) that a stay of 25 nights.For a chronological guide, see Timeline of Airbnb.Īfter moving to San Francisco in October 2007, roommates and former schoolmates Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia came up with the idea of putting an air mattress in their living room and turning it into a bed and breakfast. By that I mean, we could specify cleaning charges at something like a base charge of $XX (for example, $20), then an add'l $YY (for example $10) for each add'l day.īasically, something more realistic that the current $XX ($35, or $50, or $150) single cleaning charge, no matter the length of the stay. Or AirBnB could allow the host to set the cleaning charge on a per-day / per-stay basis. Leaving it up to the host to specify the values for X and Y. For example, a host could specify that stays of 1-5 days (or whatever) would incur one cleaning charge (and come with one change of sheets, towels, whatever), but that an add'l cleaning could occur every X days for an add'l charge of Y. One approach would be to allow a host to specify the cleaning fee on a per-(day-count) basis, where the "day-count" could be specified by the host. This is a weak point in AirBnB's pricing model, and something they should address.
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