Airbnb, every mention
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every year 2024 anyone Ali Hamed 7Jay Ripley 6Ash Williams 6Mike Maples, Jr. 5Tushar Jain 4Ted Seides 3Matt Brown 3Jeff Hausenbold 3Chris Sacca 3Avichal Garg 3
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Airbnb comes up
Mike Maples Jr. - Identifying Startup Pattern Breakers (EP.406)
- ▶ 24:35 Mike Maples, Jr. So like in the case of Lyft, the insight was, oh, that means you could do Airbnb for cars. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:01 Mike Maples, Jr. Ann and I had foolishly passed on a company called Airbed and Breakfast, because we thought people would be crazy to want to stay in a stranger's house.
- ▶ 48:10 Mike Maples, Jr. He thought that just a billion dollar exit's not the same as being like Stripe or Airbnb, and so he wasn't an authentic match to that future.
- ▶ 1:10:43 Mike Maples, Jr. Rule number one, don't pass on Airbnb because you would have made 6000 X if you'd said yes.
Alexis Ohanian – From Reddit to 776, a Technology Company that Deploys Venture Capital (EP.388)
- ▶ 20:22 Alexis Ohanian This ten million dollar exit was the first really big one for YC, and it helped give a seal of approval that then led to Dropbox supplying, which was the first real billion dollar company, and then that led to Airbnb.
Chad Summe and Mike Veith – Corridor of Commerce at eGateway Capital (EP.364)
- ▶ 40:57 Chad Summe Companies like Flowspace, what we call the Airbnb of warehousing and fulfillment, helping brands reach the consumer more efficiently and effectively, providing access to warehouses throughout the country with a turnkey technology.