[brianchesky]

We originally wanted to work in our apartment forever. We figured we could fit 100 people in 5 apartment units in our building. Assuming we would need to scale beyond that, Joe and I talked about renting every home on the street. Imagine product in one house, marketing in another... Wasn't really feasible though.

[staunch]

Why, oh why, did this beautiful dream die?

[brianchesky]

I know. Train has left. Inspiration for a new startup perhaps?

[sandieman]

That would have been epic.

Zoning code issues or hard finding a block of housing to buy with owners willing to sell?

[larrys]

"Wasn't really feasible though"

Zoning as only one issue. You most definitely can't run a business in a residential apartment, condo, coop or neighborhood. In some neighborhoods you might slide by depending on the makeup and the neighbors.

[lyime]

That sounds amazing an scary at the same time. Wonder if you could try it out for a new product team, that's fairly isolated from rest of the company. A startup within AirBnb?

[toomuchtodo]

"airbnb skunkworks? Yeah, they're three houses down"