So, what exactly is this urban Frankenstein in our midst, and how did it come about? The creation myth, for sure, is a real corker, an-all American tale much like when Ben met Jerry and came up with that lovely vanilla bean ice cream. Airbnb's founders, fellow students Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia (soon joined by Nathan Blecharczyk), met at Rhode Island School of Design, moved … [Read more...] about Floating on airbeds
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Airbnb blitz is blighting cities
The three saddest words in the English language, thundered that cantankerous old brahmin, Gore Vidal, were 'Joyce Carol Oates.' Whatever the poor lady may have done to earn such vilification, her supposed infamy has since, I would earnestly suggest, been supplanted by three very different words which are not just sad, but also terrifying and duplicitous: 'The Airbnb … [Read more...] about Airbnb blitz is blighting cities