Airbnb Commits To SF By Signing A 10-Year, 169,000 Square Foot Lease

Re:Airbnb Commits To SF By Signing A 10-Year, 169,000 Square... by staunch on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @02:06PM (#3920377)

Their tens of millions of dollars in revenue?

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Re:Airbnb Commits To SF By Signing A 10-Year, 169,000 Square... by cpeterso on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @02:16PM (#3920410)

Shouldn't they deposit that money in a bank?

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Re:Airbnb Commits To SF By Signing A 10-Year, 169,000 Square... by staunch on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @02:20PM (#3920419)

And have their employees work out of Starbucks?

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Re:Airbnb Commits To SF By Signing A 10-Year, 169,000 Square... by brianchesky on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @02:26PM (#3920438)

We originally wanted to work in our apartment forever. We figured we could fit 100 people in 5 apartment units in our building. Assuming we would need to scale beyond that, Joe and I talked about renting every home on the street. Imagine product in one house, marketing in another... Wasn't really feasible though.

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Re:Airbnb Commits To SF By Signing A 10-Year, 169,000 Square... by staunch on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @02:54PM (#3920561)

Why, oh why, did this beautiful dream die?

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Re:Airbnb Commits To SF By Signing A 10-Year, 169,000 Square... by brianchesky on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @03:24PM (#3920692)

I know. Train has left. Inspiration for a new startup perhaps?

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Re:Airbnb Commits To SF By Signing A 10-Year, 169,000 Square... by sandieman on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @02:48PM (#3920534)

That would have been epic.

Zoning code issues or hard finding a block of housing to buy with owners willing to sell?

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Re:Airbnb Commits To SF By Signing A 10-Year, 169,000 Square... by larrys on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @11:49PM (#3922304)

"Wasn't really feasible though"

Zoning as only one issue. You most definitely can't run a business in a residential apartment, condo, coop or neighborhood. In some neighborhoods you might slide by depending on the makeup and the neighbors.

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Re:Airbnb Commits To SF By Signing A 10-Year, 169,000 Square... by lyime on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @03:01PM (#3920590)

That sounds amazing an scary at the same time. Wonder if you could try it out for a new product team, that's fairly isolated from rest of the company. A startup within AirBnb?

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Re:Airbnb Commits To SF By Signing A 10-Year, 169,000 Square... by toomuchtodo on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @08:51PM (#3921904)

"airbnb skunkworks? Yeah, they're three houses down"

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