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出だし
In October 2007, a tiny item appeared in an online newsletter aimed at industrial designers men and women who shape the appearance of everything from coffee makers to jumbo jets. It referred to an unusual housing option for professional who planned to attend the upcoming joint convention of two industrial design organizations, the International Congress of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) and the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA).
If you're heading out to the ICSID/IDSA World Congress/Connecting '07 event in San Francisco next week and have yet to make accommodations, well. consider networking in your jam-jams. That's right. For "An affordable alternative to hotels in the city," imagine yourself in a fellow design industry person's home, fresh awake from a snooze on the ol'air mattress, chatting about the day's upcoming events over Pop Tarts and OJ.
The hosts for this "networking in your jam-jams" opportunity were Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia, budding designers who'd moved to San Francisco only to find they could'nt afford the rent on the loft they shared. Strapped for cash, they impulsively decided to make air mattresses and their own services as part-time tour guides available to convention attendees. Chesky and Gebbia attracted three weekend guests and made a thousand bucks, which covered the next month's rent.
Chesky と、Joe Gebbia は、Airbnbの創業者。本の出だしは、彼らの創業ヒストリーから始まっている。
