World famous accommodation application Brian Chesky, co-founder and CEO of Airbnb, He was a guest on Bloomberg TV’s “The David Rubenstein Show”.
The famous CEO who answered the questions posed to him, cryptocurrencies stating that it has a very important place today, “We are receiving serious requests regarding cryptocurrencies and have been working on this for some time.” said.
Expressing that no one liked the application when Airbnb was first established. Brian Chesky He stated that they lost a lot especially during the pandemic period, but they continued to work without giving up.
“Most Requested Topic: Cryptocurrencies!”
Referring to the survey he conducted on Twitter last year, Chesky said that it was the feature that people wanted most from this survey.payment with cryptocurrency” he reminded.
“Cryptocurrencies One of the most requested features from us. Even the most.
We currently do not have cryptocurrency payments, but we are working on it seriously.
We serve in 220 countries. of each country USA There is no such modern and robust banking system. This means serious potential for us. We have been researching this issue for a long time.”
Founding of Airbnb!
Airbnb Cheskey, who stated that when they founded it, everyone around him said “this is a very bad idea”, said that he was very hopeless at first.
“The people who said it was a bad idea were people whose opinions I really valued.
We were really hopeless in 2008. Nobody was using Airbnb. But we were successful in funding Airbnb. We couldn’t sell people beds, but we could sell breakfast.
So we started selling cereal with the names of celebrities. Finally, we were able to sell a $4 corn flakes product for $40. These people really liked it, and that’s how we got the $30,000 funding.”