Having Crushed the Rental Market, Airbnb Stoops to a Brutal New Low
The corporation’s latest ploy will see rent and house prices soar
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5 min readDec 1, 2022
Brian Chesky started Airbnb out of desperation.
He and his roommates couldn’t afford the crushing rents charged by their San Francisco land-lorder, so they bought an air mattress, did some advertising, and served…