Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, and Nathan Blecharczyk's home-sharing marketplace — enabling homeowners to rent their spaces to travelers — one of the companies that defined the 'sharing economy' and the platform model for physical-world services.
Creates the peer-to-peer lodging market — Airbnb's platform model (asset-light hospitality at global scale) proved that strangers would trust each other enough to sleep in each other's homes, unlocking a new model for supply-side economic participation.
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