How Airbnb’s Founders Sold Cereal Boxes to Stay Afloat
TL;DR: In 2008, Airbnb’s three co-founders sold limited-edition cereal boxes for $40 each to survive mounting credit-card debt and investor rejection. That unconventional hustle—generating roughly $30,000 and catching the eye of a major seed investor—demonstrated the execution ability that later built a company now valued in the tens of billions of dollars. By mid-2008, Brian … Read more