With another US election coming up, I was reminded of how Airbnb funded their early startup back in 2008.
It was the run-up to the Obama-McCain election, and the founders of Airbnb were $20k in credit card debt trying to get their idea off the ground.
And then, as Honey Copy tells it…
The Airbnb squad had yet another bat shit crazy idea…
Design and sell limited edition cereal boxes and call them Obama O’s & Captain McCain.
They contacted a print shop and had 1,000 custom boxes printed. They, then, bought a shit ton of Cheerios and Captain Crunch. And, finally, they put the boxes together with a hot glue gun in their apartment and slapped a $40 price tag on them.
And, they hired a leprechaun to tickle their nuts with a four-leaf clover, because their lucky asses somehow got featured on national television and in 24-hours sold 1,000 cereal boxes and with it… pocketed $30,000 in profit.
For 2020… maybe Trumpflakes and Frosted Biden Wheats? 😂
