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In October 2007, two art school graduates found themselves unemployed and sharing a three-bedroom apartment in San Francisco. With a pressing need to cover their rent, Brian Cheskey and Joe Gebbia came up with a daring idea: a design conference was taking place in the city and hotels were completely overbooked, so they decided to rent air mattresses and