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                          How Airbnb Got Its Start by Selling $20,000 of Breakfast Cereal

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                          Joe Gebbia, co-founder of Airbnb, explains to <i>Inc.</i> senior writer Burt Helm why using credit cards to fund his company almost ended in disaster.

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