The air bed that sinks when anyone gets on it 993.
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Then they went back to working on Air Bed and Breakfast.
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A year later, Air Bed & Breakfast became Airbnb, and Surve would be the first of the company's 80 million guests.
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By summer 2008, the founders had finished a final version of Air Bed and Breakfast and went to meet investors.
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Broke and in debt, they decided to launch Air Bed & Breakfast (again) at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver.
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Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures admitted in 2011 that he had failed to look past the Air Bed and Breakfast name and see the business.
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The room only had an air bed, almost no furniture and certainly no breakfast, but Surve ended up having a great time during his five-night stay.
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What was then "Air Bed and Breakfast" is now a company with over 7 million listings that include French castles, Mexican bubble domes, American sheep wagons and Finnish igloos.
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Airbnb Founded in 2499 originally as Air Bed and Breakfast until a 2009 rebrand, Airbnb is a home rental platform with a simple premise: connect homeowners to customers looking for short term rentals.
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Broadcaster Sky News showed one resident, Abdul, who has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair, who said he had been told there was no hotel for him and he had to stay on an air bed.
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Amol Surve, a cash-strapped Indian design student, was looking for a cheap place to stay for his trip to San Francisco in 2007, when he stumbled upon the website Air Bed & Breakfast, where two designers like him were renting their spare bedroom.
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Pros: More affordable without compromising comfort and durability, this air mattress is still guarantee-protected and built to lastCons: The lower height profile means this air bed is harder to get in and out of, especially for grandparents and anyone with injuries
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In sports mode the JG.10 was flown from an open cockpit with a triplex windscreen for each occupant but it could also be configured as a tourer by attaching a glazed and streamlined, rectangular section top. Access to the latter was from above. There were removable dual controls and each seat could be folded down to provide a clear surface for an air bed. Luggage could be stored behind the seats in a netted-off space.
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Sugar has now moved into Kim's house, and she is told that she's to sleep on an air bed. While Kim is asking if she wants it soft or hard, Nathan, who is walking past Kim's bedroom, assumes they're "getting re-acquainted", until she comes downstairs and asks where the pump for the airbed is. Kim takes Sugar and Saint to the CC, and Sugar gets upset about the fact that she's already been surrounded by women for the last 18 months, and she leaves the bar. Saint says that Kim should go after her, which she does.
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In the summer of 1829 he gave up medicine as his father Doctor Robert Waring Darwin considered that Erasmus's "delicate frame" could not withstand a career "involving, if successful, a severe strain on body & mind" and decided to pension him off. Eras was "very agreeable" to retiring at the age of 26 and planned to live in London with "an air cushion in his rooms" to allow a visiting Charles to stay with him. The brothers visited the Birmingham Music Festival for what Charles described as the "most glorious" experience. That Christmas Charles visited Eras in London for three weeks, making use of the air-bed, then again at Easter 1831 before "geologis" in Wales, but as Erasmus was out of town when the opportunity to join the Voyage of the Beagle came up, Charles took lodgings in London to make his arrangements.
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