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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every day I would wake up and think, 'Today is another missed opportunity to do something important.' After enough days like this, you start feeling like you are getting old, even when you are relatively young. We are all natural entrepreneurs, and being manacled to a desk job is not for us.
- Homeless
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- Nov 07, 2020
In June 2010, I moved out of my apartment and I have been mostly homeless ever since, off and on. I just live in Airbnb apartments and I check in every week in different homes in San Francisco.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I've been surprised by is not how different people are, but how similar they are. There are certain types of Airbnb people, and they are in every city in the world - it's just that in some cultures, there is more of a generational divide.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to create a great product, just focus on one person. Make that one person have the most amazing experience ever.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The stuff that matters in life is no longer stuff. It's other people. It's relationships. It's experience.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American dream, what we were taught was, grow up, own a car, own a house. I think that dream's completely changing. We were taught to keep up with the Joneses. Now we're sharing with the Joneses.
- Big Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the next big thing in music, and it's kind of because I come from the tech industry, is actually, I think it's the platform... Spotify is incredibly interesting. I think the platform is becoming the star.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you start a company, it's more an art than a science because it's totally unknown. Instead of solving high-profile problems, try to solve something that's deeply personal to you. Ideally, if you're an ordinary person and you've just solved your problem, you might have solved the problem for millions of people.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The office is the laboratory and meeting your users is like going into the field. You can't just stay in the lab. And it's not just asking users what they want, it's about seeing what they're doing.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we go through our lives limiting our potential, and when times are tough, it's easy to convince ourselves that something isn't possible, but if you start there, then you limit yourself and the possibilities of what you can create.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our culture is the foundation for our company.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The culture is what creates the foundation for all future innovation. If you break the culture, you break the machine that creates your products.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
Belonging has always been a fundamental driver of humankind.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Airbnb is different from most brands. We're a community of individuals, and yet there's a consistency holding us together through the values we share. We have a common belief in belonging, but everyone's expression of it will naturally always be a little different.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our shared vision of belonging is the thread that weaves through every touchpoint on Airbnb.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we started Airbnb, I had no idea about the people we would meet or the friendships I would make.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life is longer because of the journeys I have taken.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
Repetition doesn't create memories. New experiences do.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our perception of time is really driven by our perception of the unfamiliar, vivid, and new.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Travel is a new experience that can transport you out of your everyday routine to create memories with the ones you love.
- Editing
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- Nov 07, 2020
As children, we have vivid imaginations. We stay up late waiting for Santa Claus, dream of becoming president, and have ideas that defy physics. Then something happens. As we grow older, we start editing our imagination.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Think of the imagination as a giant stone from which we carve out new ideas. As we chip away, our new ideas become more polished and refined. But if you start by editing your imagination, you start with a tiny stone.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In summer of 2008, I meet a guy named Michael Seibel. And Michael Seibel says, 'There are these people called angels, and they'll give you money.' The first thing I thought is, 'I can't believe this guy believes in angels.' That's how naive I was.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
CEOs are often chief product officers. But for me to say I'm a chief product officer when my product is a community, I really should be thinking of myself as head of this community.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I've always been pretty shameless about seeking out people much smarter and much more experienced than me from the very beginning.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
People don't use Airbnb overtly to trust people more. They use it because they want to get a better sense of the culture and to save money. A by-product was that they live in someone else's shoes.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you are in someone's home, in their bed, you see the world from their eyes. You understand 'the other' is not so other.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020