The Startup | What Entrepreneurs Can Learn from the Founders of Airbnb

Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia, the billionaire founders of Airbnb, met when they were just design students at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). During this time, they became good friends and discovered that together, they make a great team. By the end of their college, they initially went their own ways.

Until years later. While working for an industrial design firm in Los Angeles, Brian has missed the idealistic entrepreneurial spirit of his time at RISD. He then visited Joe, who at the time, worked in San Francisco as a graphic designer. Brian then fell in love with the city’s energy, creativity, and entrepreneurship, which made him decide to move to the Valley.

They eventually moved into a three-bedroom apartment in San Francisco together, with the idea in mind of ​​starting a company together. They shared an apartment that they could not afford, so they had to find a solution to pay the rent.  —read more— 

CNN BUSINESS | Watch: Airbnb founder stunned on live TV by stock price

Airbnb shares began trading at $146 per share, more than doubling from its IPO price. See CEO Brian Chesky’s reaction to the news. —watch—

CNN | A sheriff’s deputy killed a Black man entering his own home in Columbus, Ohio

(CNN) – A sheriff’s deputy working for a fugitive task force shot and killed a Black man trying to enter his own home in Columbus, Ohio, last week in a case that has his family asking for answers.

Casey Goodson, 23, was fatally shot on Friday by a 17-year veteran of the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office, identified as deputy Jason Meade. Meade was working for the US Marshal’s fugitive task force looking for violent offenders at the time, but Goodson was not the person being sought by the task force, Columbus Police said.

Goodson had put his keys into his door before he was shot and fell into the kitchen, where his 5-year-old brother and his 72-year-old grandmother saw him lying on the ground with a Subway sandwich, family attorney Sean Walton told CNN. —read more—

CNN travel | How German Autobahns changed the world

(CNN) — Ah yes, “ze Autobahn”. Few other landmarks represent Germany more than its freeway system. Cologne’s cathedral is distinctively West German, and the TV Tower in Berlin is a GDR feat of engineering, but the Autobahn (literally “car runway”) connects the whole country.

Over the decades, it has morphed from a utilitarian piece of national infrastructure to a cultural icon that has spawned artworks, albums, merchandise around the globe — and even the name of an Irish pub.

But why has it become so legendary, and what relationship do Germans have with their Autobahn today? More importantly, is it true that you can drive as fast as you want on it? —read more—

CNN BUSINESS | The number of Black female founders in the million dollar club just doubled

CNN BUSINESS – Two years ago, Shani Dowell gave up a stable career and much of her bank account to take a chance on a business idea.

 As a mother and a former math teacher, she knew not all parents felt comfortable raising important feedback to teachers and school administrators. Instead, she found, they’d often chat amongst themselves about issues that came up at school.

There had to be a better way, she thought, so she founded Possip.  —read more— 

CNN Sports | F1 driver Romain Grosjean involved in horror crash during Bahrain Grand Prix

(CNN) – Formula One driver Romain Grosjean was involved in a horrific crash that left his car engulfed in flames at the Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday, causing the race to be halted.

On the first lap, Grosjean veered off the track after the third corner following some contact with Daniil Kvyat and his Haas car ploughed into the barriers, exploding on impact and breaking in half.

The French driver miraculously emerged from the flames after several seconds and was immediately tended to by the track side emergency services.  —read more—