Airbnb Host Endowment: A fund that is intended to provide support to our host community now and in the future, which we expect will be initially funded with 9.2 million shares of Airbnb stock

https://www.airbnb.com/resources/hosting-homes/a/how-were-gi...

Square did this for some of their merchants through Loyal3 (which appears to be dead now), so it’s plausible.

Disclosure: am employee

Employees that get and exercise stock options are not accredited investors either. Couldn't they take a similar route?

I admit, I ask mostly selfishly (my wife and I are superhosts, we have managed a full-time AirBnB in CA for 2 years). But it's also an interesting thought experiment. It would be quite the contrast to how the rideshare and food delivery companies treat their non-employees.

Uber and Lyft did give long-term drivers “appreciation awards” which they could use to buy stock in the IPO. So not unprecedented.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/11/uber-is-dishing-out-apprec...

My understanding was that the Uber stock was a huge disaster because the value of the Uber stock imploded after drivers bought options

Disclaimer: I am an Airbnb employee

some Uber drivers got RSUs so I don't see why it wouldn't be possible for Airbnb.