Airbnb is a sharing economy company that allows people to make short-term rentals of rooms in their homes (or entire homes).

Their office occupies one and a half floors at 888 Brannan in SoMA. Here are some photos of the 72,000 sq ft space. There are about 200 employees at that office (as of late 2013).

This is an analysis done by the SF Chronicle on the effects that Airbnb is having in the city.

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• 2014-8-11, "Critics Blame Airbnb For San Francisco's Housing Problems", NPR
• 2014-8, "Public registry of short-term rentals proposed", SocketSite
• 2014-8-6, "S.F. starts on path to regulate Airbnb", SF Chronicle
• 2014-8-4, "Airbnb is Astroturfing Against Legislation They Helped Write", Valleywag

See also

• Short-term rentals in San Francisco
• Gentrification Protests, which includes details about a 2014-11-22 AirBnB protest.