The Airbnb Story: How Three Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions of Dollars … and Plenty of Enemies

by (Journalist) Leigh Gallagher

Whatever form it takes, it’s something that’s different, real, and unique. It’s making travel excessively personal when it had become impersonal. “It’s anticommodity,” says Greylock’s Reid Hoffman. “It’s uniqueness. It’s humanization.”