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Hardly a pivot. Paul Graham’s write-up on their very early days: https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/the-airbnbs and a pretty gushing wired article about how AirBnB got into ycombinator: https://www.wired.com/2017/02/airbnbs-surprising-path-to-y-c...

that doesn't really seem like a pivot, moreso a big expansion of their original niche

Yea, the story is still interesting, how they chose that path. Highly recommend watching the link i provided.

This is perhaps the best talk I've ever heard on startups, ever. Chesky is such a good story teller and Reid Hoffman is such a great interviewer. I think a lot of founders would benefit from watching this.

narrative fallacy is a cruel master though.

I mean if we're going with Airbnb then might as well mention Uber's pivot from black car service to ridesharing (along with new CEO.. basically rebooting the company)