“It was never meant to be a business,” Nathan Blecharczyk, co-founder of Airbnb, told Angela Barnes on The Big Question.
In fact, Airbnb’s origin story is pretty interesting. What began as a group of young guys in San Francisco struggling to pay their rent after a 25% price hike and spotting a shortage of accommodation for a nearby industry event, has now become a behemoth of the travel industry.
