--- name: Airbnb type: companies aliases: [Airbnb, airbnb, @Airbnb, Airbed and Breakfast, Brian Chesky] tags: [companies, marketplace, travel, y-combinator, brian-chesky] created: 2026-06-18 ---
" That pivot opened the much bigger market.
The dominant home-share marketplace. Co-founded by Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia (YC W09).
Paul Graham's reaction at the YC interview: "What? People are going to stay in each other's homes?
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