Airbnb is a web company that provides rents and accomodations from strangers all over the world. It is very similar to Couchsurfing.
Major investors in Airbnb include Andreessen Horowitz and Digital Sky Technologies . Airbnb has grown by 800% in 2010 alone and has already booked 1.6 million night stays. Airbnb's valuation has been estimated at 1 billion dollars.[1][2][3]
Airbnb has been praised by Paul Graham[4] and by Wall Street Journal.[5]
Airbnb has been praised by UK's Daily Telegraph..[6]
Airbnb has been favorably compared with Craigslist and Groupon. It has been said that
- "On any given night in New York there are more people staying in homes via AirBnB than there are rooms in the biggest hotel in Manhattan.."[7]