In 2007, Joe Gebbia and Brian Chesky realized they could not afford the rent on their pricey San Francisco apartment, so they decided to put an air mattress in their living room and offer people an alternative to an expensive hotel room. This is the story of how Airbnb got started. In other words, Airbnb began when Gebbia and Chesky ________; the company grew because it ________.

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Airbnb began when the entrepreneurs realized their own problems with paying the rent on their apartment. They grew the company by seeing an opportunity to rent space to people who could not afford (or were unwilling) to pay exorbitant prices for a hotel room.

In 2007, Joe Gebbia and Brian Chesky Realized They Could