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Name stories · Airbnb · 2009

The name promised an air mattress and breakfast, and soon offered neither

It launched in 2008 as AirBed & Breakfast: guests slept on air mattresses in someone's home. Then hosts began listing whole homes, with no air mattress and no one making breakfast, and in March 2009 the founders shortened the name to Airbnb.

Brian Chesky remembers the moment the name stopped fitting:
“Who's gonna make breakfast for them? Because we're Airbed and Breakfast.”
Brian Chesky, co-founder and CEO

Name the company you'll become, not just the product you launched.

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