When Airbnb first launched in 2008, it wasn’t a polished global platform. It was two founders renting out air mattresses in their apartment during a conference. No sleek UI, no sophisticated pricing models, no control systems, but just a scrappy website and the need to pay rent. But guess what? That simple experiment validated one powerful truth. People were willing to pay to stay in someone else’s home. That was their Minimum Viable Product that worked just enough to test the core assumption.