Ten years ago this week we launched Airbedandbreakfast — what the world now knows as Airbnb: It was a couple of weeks before the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, more than 80,000 people were expected to attend the historic last night of the convention, but the city’s 28,000 hotel rooms were spoken for, so we had about 800 people signed up to host and 80 guest arrivals.

Our community now offers over 5 million homes — in every single one of them, guests from every corner of the planet can feel like they can belong anywhere. Today, Airbnb has had more than 300 million guest arrivals across more than 81,000 cities and 191 countries. This coming weekend, an otherwise pretty ordinary August weekend, we expect to see the biggest night in Airbnb’s history with more than 3.5 million guests checking into homes around the world.

It would be easy to think of the very first Airbnb stay as just that, a stay. But it was actually an experience as well. Even in our earliest days, we approached home stays as a gateway to an end-to-end travel experience. Beyond sharing our own home on Rausch Street, we also shared with our first three guests our favorite, lesser-known and truly authentic places to visit in San Francisco.

That’s why, in November 2016, we formally introduced the concept of magical, handcrafted Experiences powered by local people and made them bookable on our platform. We are now in over 800 cities with more than 15,000 people sharing their passions, talents and hobbies — from pasta making in Tuscany to surfing in Hawaii.

Thinking back to those days in August 2008, people thought the idea of Airbnb was crazy. Strangers would never trust each other. We live in an era where there’s a lot of division online and in the world, but Airbnb is actually proving we’re not as divided as we think we are. It has taught us that we’re more similar than we are different. People are 99 percent the same and people are fundamentally good, statistically. Otherwise, this concept wouldn’t work.

When more than 2 million people are welcomed into other people’s homes on any given night, some amazing and even outlandish moments can happen. As we celebrate our 10-year birthday, we want to highlight 10 particular moments when you — our community — brought the world closer together.