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Meet Our Newest Portfolio Company, Airbnb

Ben's Blog

The name was shortened to “Airbnb” and they launched their website in 2009. You can now use Airbnb to rent apartments, homes, cabins, tree houses, boats, parking spaces, castles, sublets… and even a country (for the bargain sum of $70,000 per night, you can rent out the country of Liechtenstein like rapper Snoop Dog).

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the world without altgate

Altgate

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Microsoft Buys 37signals For $300 Million The Coming Venture Capital Boom → The World Without Altgate Posted on January 1, 2009 by fnazeeri No, this blog is not going anywhere.    It is an amazing tool.