The idea succeeded and the first Airbnb guests were born: a 30-year-old Indian man, a 35-year-old woman from Boston and a 45-year-old father of four from Utah sleeping on their floor. They bought a few airbeds and quickly put up a site called “Air Bed and Breakfast.” The idea was to offer visitors a place to sleep and breakfast in the morning. They noticed that all hotel rooms in the city were booked, as the local Industrial Design conference attracted a lot of visitors. Without employment, they were having trouble paying their rent and were looking for a way to earn some extra cash.
Airbnb founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia just moved from New York. The Airbnb founder story is one of persistence, determination, fear and most of all, hustle. Participation in the Lucerne vote, which was just one of a slew held on local and regional issues across Switzerland Sunday as part of the country's direct democratic system, stood at 34.6 percent.The Airbnb Founder Story: From Selling Cereals To A $25B Company from JasperRibbers
In Switzerland, caps on short-term subletting to holidaymakers are already in place in the western regions of Geneva and Vaud. With Sunday's vote, Lucerne will become the latest of a number of European cities that have taken steps to limit the effect of the Airbnb home rental platform on the housing market. The left hailed the vote, with the national Socialist Party's co-president Cedric Wermuth describing it on Twitter as a "fantastic victory against the real estate lobby". The local government had presented a watered-down counter proposal, which would have restricted the percentage of short-term rentals within non-touristy neighbourhoods, but it failed to get sufficient backing. Opponents had warned it risked harming tourism in the city, which is one of Switzerland's main tourist destinations. Just over 64 percent of voters in the picturesque city in central Switzerland were in favour of the restriction tabled by the leftwing Social Democrats.īackers of the initiative said it aimed to cap large-scale temporary rentals by commercial providers and to free up living space for residents of Lucerne, which is facing a significant housing crunch.
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