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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired
- ▶ 42:19 Ben Gilbert And then it, it went really for two years and kind of culminated at the end of 20 20 with DoorDash and Airbnb,
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 38:41 David Rosenthal It's now super easy to grab Google Maps and build stuff on top of it, and it's really hot, and this enables startups, so like Zillow, Uber, eventually DoorDash, Airbnb.
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:08:29 David Rosenthal Coinbase, Airbnb, Zoom, Datadog, every major IPO since Google, every major tech IPO has had this.
The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 1:01:06 David Rosenthal This trend started with Web two dot O companies like Facebook and Netflix and Airbnb.
TSMC · Acquired
- ▶ 2:23:16 David Rosenthal Jenny and I were just down in Santa Barbara for a couple weeks, rented an Airbnb down there.
Holiday Special 2023 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:15:05 Ben Gilbert Even three years ago, Airbnb's going public, cover Airbnb.
Visa (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:07:55 David Rosenthal Then there's two-sided networks, like Airbnb is the classic one, you know, something like that.
Costco (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:58:33 David Rosenthal Airbnb is a thing.
- ▶ 2:58:34 Ben Gilbert Airbnb.
Porsche (with Doug DeMuro) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:14:05 Ben Gilbert It's like, um, Airbnb for, uh, amenities at resorts.
- ▶ 3:14:18 Ben Gilbert My wife and I will just like book a condo or an Airbnb or something.
Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming · Acquired
- ▶ 21:31 Mitch Lasky So, you know, Uber and the taxi industry or Airbnb and the hotel industry where you aggregate demand
- ▶ 1:03:22 David Rosenthal This is like even better than the Airbnb Craigslist growth hack.
Stratechery (with Ben Thompson) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:30:02 Ben Thompson So there's one about Airbnb.
Amazon Web Services · Acquired
- ▶ 1:20:42 David Rosenthal Dropbox, Instagram, Airbnb, Uber, Zynga, all of these companies.
- ▶ 1:31:28 David Rosenthal Airbnb, Uber, you know, Instagram and the like.
Walmart · Acquired
- ▶ 1:40:42 Ben Gilbert It's not like the Airbnb IPO that gets a lot of reception.
The Playbook: Lessons from 200+ Company Stories · Acquired
- ▶ 15:48 Ben Gilbert So, of course, this trend led Sequoia to go on to invest in Google, WhatsApp, Airbnb, Meituan, ByteDance, global markets.
- ▶ 47:12 David Rosenthal Was Airbnb.
- ▶ 47:13 David Rosenthal The three Airbnb founders were at that YC startup school, and that's why they decided to apply to YC that year, and the rest is history.
Arena Show Part I: Idea Dinner + YC Continuity · Acquired
- ▶ 46:37 David Rosenthal I think most people know about YC's accelerator business that produced Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe,
- ▶ 1:08:37 Ben Gilbert When a company exits or has a liquidity event, such as Airbnb, what does YC do with that liquidity?
- ▶ 1:12:24 Anu Hariharan That was true for Airbnb, that was true for Coinbase, that was true for DoorDash, one of the partners at YC kept funding DoorDash,
- ▶ 1:17:42 David Rosenthal Airbnb was not, uh, up into the right journey the whole time.
- ▶ 1:22:07 Anu Hariharan You got to get Airbnb and Coinbase to come teach us this pre-IPO.
Platforms and Power (with Hamilton Helmer and Chenyi Shi) · Acquired
- ▶ 12:25 Chenyi Shi If we come up with a framework to understand platforms, they should work as well for an Uber or Airbnb of today as they should work for the matchmakers 3000 years ago.
- ▶ 1:02:44 Ben Gilbert So like Airbnb's million dollar insurance policy.
- ▶ 1:02:50 Ben Gilbert I will pay Airbnb's ridiculous fees because it's kind of nice to have that insurance policy and them as a trusted facilitator of the transaction.
- ▶ 1:03:27 Chenyi Shi So the insurance program of Airbnb, could a competitor also offer a similar insurance program and achieve similar value add to your customers?
- ▶ 1:03:40 Ben Gilbert Great observation that the, you know, the insurance example makes it better than wiring money into a void, but it doesn't, you know, directly to the person that's hosting the Airbnb, but not necessarily better than VRBO or someone that…
- ▶ 1:21:19 David Rosenthal The easy, obvious example of this that has been discussed much in the past decade is Airbnb versus Uber, right?
- ▶ 1:21:24 David Rosenthal Like Airbnb has so much unique supply that you're not going to find on booking.com or HomeAway or any other platform.
Peloton - the entire history and strategy behind America's trendiest workout · Acquired
- ▶ 1:25:56 Ben Gilbert By the way, I love that in these episodes, like where we have personal experience, like half the Airbnb episode was my experience as a host.
Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version) · Acquired
- ▶ 47:33 Ben Gilbert Airbnb and Uber are starting.
FTX with Sam Bankman-Fried & Mario Gabriele (Extended Cut) · Acquired
- ▶ 32:28 Ben Gilbert And for all of our listeners out there who are not familiar with, like, the trading world, I'm gonna make a way oversimplified, uh, comparison here, but imagine running, uh, Airbnb or Uber, but you don't actually have the hard part of any…
Not Boring (with Packy McCormick) - Extended Cut · Acquired
- ▶ 56:51 Packy McCormick Uh, a friend of mine, Tommy Gamba, who was at Airbnb and, uh, and getting ready to leave.