Airbnb, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Airbnb comes up
Why boring work is inevitable
- ▶ 4:24 Alex Lieberman You see Brian Chesky running Airbnb.
How to Identify Top 1% Talent (Keith Rabois, Investor in Doordash, YouTube, Airbnb & Lyft)
- ▶ 1:00 Alex Lieberman Every single year for the last twenty-something years, and his most notable investments include DoorDash, Affirm, Fair, Stripe, Ramp, Avon, YouTube, Airbnb, Palantir, and Lyft.
7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
- ▶ 18:39 Alex Lieberman Just look at how quickly Airbnb was able to build a brand that often surpasses the likes of Hilton and other famous hotel brands. 2 times in the scene
Amp it Up
- ▶ 13:17 Alex Lieberman This reminds me of the recent podcast episode with Lenny Rachitsky and Brian Chesky, the CEO of Airbnb, where Brian is known for pushing his team to think 10 X bigger than they're thinking.
How to Get Your First 1,000 Users
- ▶ 4:39 Alex Lieberman For example, Airbnb, Spotify, or Superhuman, the email app.
17 Startup Principles by Sam Altman
- ▶ 8:46 Alex Lieberman I highly recommend you listen to the podcast interview between Lenny Rachitsky and Brian Chesky, who is the CEO of Airbnb, and he recently went through this exact exercise.
Why The Next Big Thing Looks Like a Toy? Ft. Apple Vision Pro
- ▶ 6:39 Alex Lieberman Another example, marketplace companies like Uber or Airbnb also have network effects because each additional user makes it much more attractive for a new driver or host to join the platform because there's more business, which then makes… 2 times in the scene
How to Get Rich (Without Getting Lucky)
- ▶ 5:49 Alex Lieberman Turning everyone with a home into a hotelier, aka Airbnb.
Brian Chesky on Startups, Leadership, and Curiosity
- ▶ 0:28 Alex Lieberman The co-founder and CEO of Airbnb. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:14 Alex Lieberman Um, program management at Airbnb is a high status job. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:59 Alex Lieberman Next, Lenny asks Brian about his ability to make Airbnb employees think bigger and set more ambitious goals. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:40 Alex Lieberman Next up, Lenny asks Brian how he's continued to grow and evolve as a CEO, as Airbnb has grown and evolved as a company.
Measuring Product Market Fit
- ▶ 11:42 Rahul Vohra If it was Airbnb, it would be after you've, uh, done your first stay.
- ▶ 14:34 Rahul Vohra Early marketing at Dropbox, Airbnb, and many other great companies. 3 times in the scene
A $20m Business with No Meetings, Deadlines or Full-Time Employees
- ▶ 11:03 Sahil Lavingia And what you get out of hourly, just like Uber, just like Airbnb, just like instances on AWS, you get efficiency.
Bootstrapping vs. Venture Capital
- ▶ 8:35 Alex Lieberman Yeah, and I guess, you know, I know you've spoken about this, and I guess, like, the other place I could potentially see this making sense or raising venture making sense, other than just, like, hard tech or deep tech, uh, R&D heavy… 6 times in the scene
Why Storytelling is the Key to Your Pitch
- ▶ 5:32 Robbie Crabtree It's why we associate Airbnb with Brian Chesky.
“Build An Elite Navy Seals of Business” - Lessons from Airbnb’s Founder
- ▶ 0:28 Alex Lieberman Uh, from a podcast I listened to specifically a conversation between Brian Chesky, the CEO of Airbnb and Jason Calacanis, the host of this week in startups. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13 Alex Lieberman Lesson number one, Brian, Joe, and Nathan, the co-founders of Airbnb are what I like to call cockroaches. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:25 Alex Lieberman He literally reworked the entire Airbnb organization so he could be closer to the product, and I'll explain in a minute how exactly he did that, but basically when Brian was asked how he spends his time today, he spends his time on only… 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:05 Alex Lieberman And so what he ended up doing is he went through with his team and he storyboarded out all 150 screens from the Airbnb app.
- ▶ 7:02 Alex Lieberman And so just to give a sense of what happened before the pandemic, Airbnb was organized by divisions. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:42 Alex Lieberman Uh, product that they offer Airbnb owners, and then another one for Airbnb experiences, then another one for long-term stays.
- ▶ 9:44 Alex Lieberman So just as the Navy SEALs are this small, uh, highly selective elite group of folks within, you know, the armed forces, that's how he views Airbnb employees. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:00 Alex Lieberman Within Airbnb's business is it starts being scientific and data-based, and then it evolves into being art and intuition-based. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:01 Alex Lieberman So the way that Airbnb organizes its product function is there's basically three roles within product at Airbnb. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:42 Alex Lieberman And he admits that Airbnb fell prey to this constraintless world. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:36 Alex Lieberman And then he views Airbnb as being a business like other businesses that is going to, that are going to create tuned models based on having great internal data and great sensibility around the user experience.
- ▶ 18:30 Alex Lieberman And so these are my nine lessons from Brian Chesky and Airbnb based on his conversation with Jason Calacanis on this week in startups.
How To Die…With Zero
- ▶ 8:23 Alex Lieberman Experiences are investments, just like a stock that pays out a quarterly dividend, or a piece of real estate, like an Airbnb that you will rent out to short-term tenants.
How To Get Your Initial Customers
- ▶ 21:30 Alex Lieberman Lenny was a product lead at Airbnb, and now he's a prolific content creator, super popular, and I would say most of his content is about, uh, growth and product at startups, and one of his most popular essays ever is called How the Biggest…
How One Author Raised $41M on Kickstarter
- ▶ 12:27 Alex Lieberman So it's like, uh, you know, Uber and Lyft, uh, or, uh, Airbnb, like a lot of these businesses either will launch around the same time as a function of like where we are in the economy or as a function of technology.
What You Need to Know Before Raising Capital, and The Billion-Dollar Media Company You’ve Never Heard of
- ▶ 32:28 Alex Lieberman Um, so businesses like Uber or Airbnb, where every additional customer that you bring on, it makes the product best, better for previous customers.
How Did Mr. Beast Build a $1.5 BILLION Empire, the 5 Ways to Brainstorm Business Ideas and How to Hire FAQ
- ▶ 25:08 Alex Lieberman It is an inch or two inches wide, but it goes wildly deep, meaning people want it real, a small group, people want it really badly, and he goes on to describe, like, Facebook being at Harvard only, Airbnb starting literally as, like, air…
An Introduction to Network Effects
- ▶ 5:27 Alex Lieberman With extra bedrooms that join Airbnb, the more selection that users have to book places.
- ▶ 7:57 Alex Lieberman Airbnb doesn't own any homes, which is obviously very different from traditional hospitality, where Marriott or Hilton or Sheraton do own the hotels.
All You Need to Know to Buy a “Boring” Business
- ▶ 2:33 Alex Lieberman Buying single family homes to rent out, whether it's more of an Airbnb model or not an Airbnb model, or do we buy a boring business?
Great Startup Ideas, Bad Businesses
- ▶ 11:18 Alex Lieberman Taking a percentage of a transaction, let's say if you're Airbnb or if you're American Express, or you can have a take rate in the form of advertising real estate that you get to own and make money on if you're YouTube or Facebook. 2 times in the scene
Mental Health #6: The Digital Therapist
- ▶ 9:02 Alex Lieberman The best example is Airbnb. 2 times in the scene
Accelerate Your Career #2: Learning How to Learn (Classic)
- ▶ 15:26 Alex Lieberman An example I like to think of is Airbnb. 2 times in the scene
Fight for Your Customers
- ▶ 2:17 Alex Lieberman Massive companies have come out of YC like Airbnb and Stripe, but said differently, this advice that Paul Graham wrote about in his essays that they espoused at Y Combinator to their startups, it's all about doing things manually and…
Learning How to Learn
- ▶ 17:49 Alex Lieberman So an example that I think of here is Airbnb. 4 times in the scene