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Necessity. chesky quit his design job and joined gebia in san francisco. between the two of them, they couldn't pay their first month's rent. >> it turns out that weekend, there was this international design conference. all the hotels were sold out and we had this idea, let's create a bed and breakfast for the design conference. we pulled the air beds on out of the conference, we inflated them and called it the air bed & breakfast. >> a light bulb went off, but early skeptics of their idea didn't believe people would invite strangers into their homes. in 2008, without big investors, they began...

Was born of necessity. he quit his design job and joined a partner in san francisco. between the two of them, they couldn't pay their first month's rent. >> that weekend, there was a conference. all the hotels were sold out. we had this idea, let's create a bed and breakfast for the conference. we pulled air beds out and inflated them. we called it the air bed and breakfast. >> reporter: a lightbulb went off. early skeptics didn't believe people would invite strangers into their homes. in 2008 without big investors, they began covering their costs by selling breakfast cereal. >> so, joe and i ...

Live there. even if it's just for a night. >> the original concept involved buying three air mattresses and renting their apartment out as air bed and breakfast. >> and the kind of breakthrough moment was one of their customers, a i think fairly famous drummer said i'm going to be gone, out of town. can i rent my apartment when i'm not even there. i won't be able to provide breakfast, which was part of it. they said, yeah, i guess that makes sense, and the entire business was transformed from there. without that inspiration and mini pivot, i don't know if it would be what it is today. >> somet...

Even if it's just for a night. >> the original concept involved buying three air mattresses and renting their apartment out as air bed and breakfast. >> and the kind of breakthrough moment was one of their customers, a i think fairly famous drummer said i'm going to be gone, out of town. can i rent my apartment when i'm not even there. i won't be able to provide breakfast, which was part of it. they said, yeah, i guess that makes sense, and the entire business was transformed from there. without that inspiration and mini pivot, i don't know if it would be what it is today. >> sometimes i'm tem...

Room. >> wherever you go, don't go there. live there. even if it's just for a night. >> the original concept involved buying three air mattresses and renting their apartment out as air bed and breakfast. >> and the kind of break through moment was one of their customers i think was a fairly famous drummer. who said i'm going to be gone, i'm going to be out of town, can i rent my place while i'm not there? and they said, yeah, i guess that makes sense. and the entire business was transformed. and i think without that transformation and that minipivot, i don't know if air b & b would be. >> air ...