Airbnb

…Um, you look at Airbnb, it's like the website was a form and the form was just like, literally where you inputted what you needed and then someone somehow went there and figured out how to actually make the booking happen.…

…So by way of example companies people would know like we've had Docusign, Airbnb, Uber, you know, these are a couple of like some of the legacy, the first really big venture backed, institutional venture backed companies that ultimately went public and that everybody has used probably at least once…

…He's involved with various wellness projects, has worked@booking.com for 17 years and now leads hotel enterprise and connectivity partnerships at Airbnb.…

…151 00:08:44,975 - > 00:08:50,550 That is Expedia, that is then booking.com and then Airbnb's.…

…But Airbnb and Verbo have really, you know, had caught up over the last couple of years.…

…Airbnb, Figma and then Twilio.…

…And one of the things we did early on is we talked about Airbnb and we said, here's the thing you have to understand about blitzscaling.…

…Um, you know, Airbnb was relatively new, right?…

…started with the idea [00:02:26 -> 00:02:34] of unlocking underutilized and underused storage space in people's homes and turning it into a [00:02:34 -> 00:02:38] marketplace, basically like the Airbnb, but for storage.…

…It manages more than 40 billion in assets under management and has over 800 portfolio companies, including some of the world's most known tech heavyweights, such as Stripe, Airbnb, Canva or Snap.…

…Four years in tilt sold to Airbnb in a fire sale.…

…One, when you click that pet-friendly box on any of the search engines for the industry, when people are searching, we've learned from both Airbnb and VRBO, for example, that that little box is clicked three times as much as the filter not being checked, which shows there is a huge demand for it.…

…Having worked with pretty much every single major tech brand out there, we're talking Google, Apple, Airbnb, Slack, netfl and the work was always the most important thing.…

…Lucas: On May 5, 2020, Brian Chesky sat down at his kitchen table in San Francisco and wrote an email that would be sent to every Airbnb employee.…

…peaker A: Did you uh, did you see the kind of switch in communication that uh, happened at uh, Airbnb?…

…So DoorDash, Airbnb, Uber, Lyft, all have in common that their marketplaces.…

…She brings more than 20 years of experience in global business operations and strategic planning with leadership roles at Uber, Airbnb and Walmart E Commerce.…

…Because running a business, running a franchise, having to know how to deal with the money part of it, how to pay taxes, how to make a listing, how to integrate that to Airbnb, vrbo, et cetera, et Cetera is no easy undertaking for an individual.…

…In 2008, the founders of Airbnb were introduced to seven prominent Silicon Valley venture investors.…

…Same thing with Airbnb.…

…Thanks to my friend Sam, I was guided to a podcast a few weeks ago and it was a podcast from Brian Chesky, the CEO and founder of Airbnb, where he shared his vision on doing business and there were some really diamonds in there in terms of customer experience tips.…

…Now, somewhere in the middle of all of this, I became an Airbnb host myself.…

…Maybe it's Spotify, Airbnb, or Uber.…

…You'll hear from leaders at companies like Hilton, Expedia, Airbnb, and JetBlue.…

…If you've got the next Airbnb idea in your mind and you're an entrepreneur, uh, but you're thinking, oh, no, I've got to find a tech person to build it, I got to outsource it to someone, I got to go through all the tech stack and it's going to take…

…courses, you know, instead of learning from a professor of product management who hasn't been in industry for 25 years, you can learn from Lenny Urchitsky, who was an early product manager at Airbnb, now makes a living writing his Substack newsletter.…