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Bobbie: Laura Modi. How a Baby Formula Startup Took Market Share From Two Industry Giants Aug 17, 2026 · 17 mentions

  • ▶ 2:05 Guy Raz Laura had built a successful career in tech, working at Google and then Airbnb.
  • ▶ 8:54 Guy Raz And you join a small-ish, at that time, startup, Airbnb. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 10:48 Guy Raz Ok, so you are at Airbnb, and it's growing, and, and you also, at a certain point, become a new mom, which is going to, it's transformational for most people who become new parents. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 24:08 Guy Raz You were going to, you decided to leave entirely, you're going to leave your job Airbnb. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 34:21 Guy Raz You've been at Google, you've been at Airbnb, so you have developed connections, contacts, and how much were you, were you trying to raise initially?
  • ▶ 42:34 Laura Modi Through building Airbnb, you're going through a lot of highs and lows. 3 times in the scene

Advice Line with Christina Tosi of Milk Bar Jun 11, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:55 Guy Raz Like a vertical, just a business vertical, a completely separate part of your business where you, you start to work with brands, you know, brands that we've had on the show, like Airbnb or Canva milk bar.

Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed May 7, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 14:41 Guy Raz So like a platform, like an, like an Airbnb type platform. 2 times in the scene

Advice Line with Miguel McKelvey of WeWork Mar 5, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:19 Miguel McKelvey And similar to Uber or Lyft, um, you know, Airbnb, some of these companies that, of my era that achieved great valuations

Square: Jim McKelvey. He Lost a $2,000 Sale, Then Built a $10 Billion Company Feb 23, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:03 Guy Raz If you're building a business right now, imagine getting advice from the founder of Tarte Cosmetics, or Airbnb, or even Sir Richard Branson, or Mark Cuban.

Spinbrush: John Osher. The Electric Toothbrush That Sold for $475M Feb 16, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:03 Guy Raz If you're building a business right now, imagine getting advice from the founder of Tarte Cosmetics, or Airbnb, or Mark Cuban.

Netflix: Reed Hastings. “We’re Not a Family.” The Provocative Idea That Helped Build a Streaming Giant Feb 9, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:03 Guy Raz If you're building a business right now, imagine getting advice from the founder of Tarte Cosmetics, or Airbnb, or even Sir Richard Branson, or Mark Cuban.

HOKA: Jean-Luc Diard and Nicolas Mermoud. The “Clown Shoe” That Became a $2B Bonanza Feb 2, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:11 Guy Raz If you're building a business right now, imagine getting advice from the founder of Tarte Cosmetics, or Airbnb, or even Sir Richard Branson, or Mark Cuban.

Gymboree: Joan Barnes. How Building a Beloved Brand Nearly Destroyed Its Founder Jan 19, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:02 Guy Raz If you're building a business right now, imagine getting advice from the founder of Tarte Cosmetics, or Airbnb, or Patreon, or Raising Cane's, or even Sir Richard Branson, or Mark Cuban, some of the greatest entrepreneurs on earth, people…

Dollar Shave Club: Michael Dubin, From Zero to a Billion Dollar Exit in Five Years (December 2018) Jan 5, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:44 Guy Raz Companies like Airbnb or Lyft or Snapchat or Spotify or Hulu.

SkinnyDipped: Breezy and Val Griffith. The Flourishing Snack Company That Almost Failed Dec 29, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:02 Guy Raz If you're building a business right now, imagine getting advice from the founder of Tarte Cosmetics, or Airbnb, or Patreon, or Raising Cane's, or even Sir Richard Branson, or Mark Cuban, some of the greatest entrepreneurs on earth, people…

Exploding Kittens: Elan Lee. How cat-themed Russian Roulette changed game night forever Dec 22, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:03 Guy Raz If you're building a business right now, imagine getting advice from the founder of Tarte Cosmetics, or Airbnb, or Patreon, or Raising Cane's, or even Sir Richard Branson, or Mark Cuban, some of the greatest entrepreneurs on earth, people…
  • ▶ 27:21 Elan Lee We're gonna set up a group little Hawaii trip, some of my favorite people, I'm gonna rent an Airbnb, we're all gonna go hang out.
  • ▶ 1:17:36 Elan Lee Rent an Airbnb.

93 Rejections, One Revolution: How Indiegogo Changed Crowdfunding Forever Dec 15, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 55:14 Slava Rubin I really wanted to, uh, create a massive company, and I really thought we had the opportunity to create the Airbnb of, uh, crowdfunding, because it should all be consolidated under one roof.

Khan Academy: Sal Khan. From Tutoring His Cousins to Teaching the World For Free (September 2020) Dec 8, 2025 · 1 mention

Advice Line with Chet Pipkin of Belkin International Nov 13, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:01 Daniel Moll Yeah, we're mostly online today, we're also on Amazon, and then we're getting into some retail stores, and we're also carried by a few hotels and Airbnbs as well.

Pressbox and Tide Cleaners: Vijen Patel. The $1.99 Gamble That Built a National Brand Oct 6, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:30 Guy Raz I mean, when you are in San Francisco, I mean, this is like, you know, that, that time, I mean, it's like Uber is starting to make waves, and obviously Airbnb is already, you know, really starting to have an impact, and Slack is, is coming…

Advice Line: Playing to Your Strengths Sep 4, 2025 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 15:33 Guy Raz We're going to take a quick break, but when we come back, Joe Jebbia, co-founder of Airbnb, joins me on the advice line. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 16:48 Guy Raz You are on with Joe Jebbia, co-founder of Airbnb. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 36:28 Guy Raz Hey, thanks so much for listening to this special mashup edition of the Advice Line on how I built this lab, and special thanks to Troy Carter of Atom Factory, Joe Jebbia of Airbnb, and Sadie Lincoln of Bar Three for joining me on the show.

Figma: Dylan Field Jun 16, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:07 Guy Raz If you've ever booked a trip on Airbnb, watched something on Netflix, or joined a Zoom call, you've interacted with a product that was designed using Figma.

Tecovas: Paul Hedrick May 19, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 10:25 Paul Hedrick You know, I kind of had a Warby Parker for X, Airbnb for X, and then a few other 2 times in the scene

Substack: Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie May 12, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 48:04 Guy Raz Obviously, there's, people are starting to believe in you, but I just want to be clear about something to people listening, which is, Y Combinator, we know about the Coinbase's, we know about the Airbnbs, we know about the Instacart, but…

SpotHero: Mark Lawrence Mar 10, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 2:05 Guy Raz Initially, he and his co-founder wanted to create a sort of Airbnb for parking, a peer to peer service where people would rent out their driveways in exchange for a fee.
  • ▶ 12:58 Mark Lawrence Like, what we looked at is, we're like, there's all this parking that you can't have access to, and if we bring all of this parking supply, we're gonna start the Airbnb of parking. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 24:44 Guy Raz Like, just like Airbnb.
  • ▶ 28:47 Guy Raz You know, incubated Airbnb and Coinbase and Instacart and a couple of other major companies and brands.

Advice Line with Joe Gebbia of Airbnb Jan 30, 2025 · 19 mentions

  • ▶ 1:05 Guy Raz Joining me this week is Joe Jebbia, co-founder of Airbnb. 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 7:07 Guy Raz You're on with Joe Jebbia, co-founder of Airbnb.
  • ▶ 20:03 Guy Raz He's the co-founder of Airbnb, and we are taking your calls. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 34:13 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and today I'm taking calls with Airbnb co-founder Joe Jebbia. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 43:52 JL Thorpe What was the decision making process for let's add experiences to the platform and not vehicles or office spaces or something else, if you really just share that. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 48:03 Guy Raz Um, Joe, before I let you go, um, it's a version of a question I ask everybody who comes on to help me out here, which is, you've got Samara and you've learned, I mean, I'm sure because you learned so much with your experience at Airbnb,… 3 times in the scene

Resy and Eater: Ben Leventhal Jan 20, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 44:35 Guy Raz And, and one of the things that you guys did pretty early on was you partner, you decided to partner with Airbnb. 6 times in the scene

Advice Line with Jack Conte of Patreon Jan 16, 2025 · 4 mentions

Viator: Rod Cuthbert Oct 14, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 33:01 Guy Raz And at the time, I mean, essentially, you know, you were sort of like Airbnb before Airbnb, right?

Advice Line with Leah Solivan of Taskrabbit Sep 12, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:31 Guy Raz I mean, when, when ideas like, like Airbnb and Uber weren't yet fully formed, you actually launched TaskRabbit in 2008.

Twitter, Medium and Blogger: Ev Williams May 6, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 50:23 Guy Raz You take Twitter to South by South, so it becomes a turning point for many companies, Airbnb and

Less competition, more creation with Renée Mauborgne Apr 4, 2024 · 1 mention

Parachute Home: Ariel Kaye Feb 5, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 43:55 Ariel Kaye And so that became a real hook for people, um, but, you know, and in December as well, I, I did a big photo shoot, so I, you know, I rented an Airbnb, and I shot all these products, and I hired a PR agency with my last 3000 dollars.

Framing the future of eyecare with Neil Blumenthal and Dave Gilboa of Warby Parker Dec 14, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 27:58 Guy Raz That's why there's Airbnb, because Marriott and Hilton and Hyatt, they, like, couldn't figure this out. 2 times in the scene

Everlane: Michael Preysman Nov 20, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 29:29 Eric Sedrance Without a doubt, my favorite episode of all time is the Airbnb one. 2 times in the scene

Kona Ice: Tony Lamb Nov 6, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 28:07 Guy Raz Hosted by Sequoia's Rulaf Botha, Crucible Moments provides a peek into the journey of companies like Airbnb, PayPal, 23 and me, and NVIDIA, and the decisions that changed their businesses forever. 2 times in the scene

Sir Kensington's: Scott Norton and Mark Ramadan Oct 23, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:33 Scott Norton I, you know, was friendly with one of the founders of Airbnb that was at RISD right down the hill.

Herschel Supply Co.: Jamie and Lyndon Cormack Oct 16, 2023 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 43:46 Guy Raz Did you know Airbnb was almost put out of business when a competitor cloned their website down to the very pixel? 4 times in the scene

The Lip Bar (TLB): Melissa Butler (2020) Jul 3, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 41:47 Melissa Butler Me and Roscoe ended up like Airbnb-ing her bedroom and she moved into my room so that we could like cover our expenses.

Harry’s Razors: Andy Katz-Mayfield and Jeff Raider Jun 12, 2023 · 2 mentions

Twilio: Jeff Lawson Apr 3, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:18 Guy Raz Its communications technology connects big brands like Airbnb or Uber or DoorDash or even Nike and Toyota to consumers in ways that have become so natural, so intuitive, that we barely even think about them today.
  • ▶ 52:43 Jeff Lawson And Airbnb was a few blocks away in that direction.

HIBT Lab! Too Good To Go: Lucie Basch Mar 9, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:43 Guy Raz They founded Too Good To Go, and it's a platform that connects restaurants with consumers, so sort of like Airbnb for leftovers.
  • ▶ 20:59 Guy Raz You've got, in the case of Airbnb, an extra room in your house.

HIBT Lab! Nuro: Dave Ferguson Jan 19, 2023 · 1 mention

ButcherBox: Mike Salguero Oct 3, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 27:35 Mike Salguero Airbnb had just kind of started and people got excited about the concept of being a marketplace for custom stuff. 2 times in the scene

HIBT Lab! OpenAI: Sam Altman Sep 29, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:04 Guy Raz Sam is the former president of the legendary tech incubator Y Combinator, the accelerator program that helped launch Airbnb, Stripe, Coinbase, Storedash, and so many others.
  • ▶ 14:44 Guy Raz All right, so you became president of Y Combinator, and lots of YC companies have been on How I Built This in the past, as I think you know, including Stripe, and Airbnb, and Reddit, and Coinbase, and lots of others.

HIBT Lab! IDEO: David Kelley Jul 28, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:20 Guy Raz And so you're Procter & Gamble, and you say, or you're Marriott, and you say, you know, we don't want another Airbnb to come up.

TaskRabbit: Leah Solivan Jul 11, 2022 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 2:29 Guy Raz Those three developments would, of course, eventually power companies like Lyft and Uber and Airbnb and Instacart and DoorDash.
  • ▶ 24:44 Guy Raz You know, Airbnb are really kind of starting to come together.
  • ▶ 56:45 Leah Solivan Now, at this time, you're also starting to see Uber and Lyft and Airbnb, all these other, you know, peer-to-peer economies really start to take off and start to emerge.

HIBT Lab! BlocPower: Donnel Baird Jul 7, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 34:29 Donnel Baird Or Airbnb or any other tech company, because we want to take the message of electrification to every corner of the country.
  • ▶ 41:01 unnamed speaker They've invested in Uber and Airbnb and all these incredible companies that have done really, really well, and they've made a ton of money.

PODS & Red Rover: Pete Warhurst May 9, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 48:21 Guy Raz Meantime, you start to run into problems that many years later, uh, companies like Airbnb and Uber would run into, which is a municipal regulations first in Tampa, the Tampa Bay area, because they were saying people started, there were…

WordPress & Automattic: Matt Mullenweg Mar 21, 2022 · 1 mention

Coinbase: Brian Armstrong Nov 15, 2021 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 14:17 Guy Raz And I guess, and you were there pretty short period of time, and then you got a job as a, as a software engineer at Airbnb, which is, which was kind of blowing up at that 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 22:00 Guy Raz Because you had this job at Airbnb. 2 times in the scene

Live From The HIBT Summit: Adam Grant Aug 19, 2021 · 2 mentions

Casper: Philip Krim Jun 28, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 39:48 Philip Krim We were all working out of, you know, wherever we could from time to time, and so we would often work out of Luke's apartment in Brooklyn, and Luke had an extra bedroom that he would rent out on Airbnb, and Luke's roommate at this time…

Meet The HIBT Fellows: Mark Atlan & Zach Correa May 18, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 13:57 Guy Raz So something like Airbnb or Uber, but instead of your house or car, Zach wants to connect people to their neighbor's vegetable garden. 2 times in the scene

Live Episode! Clubhouse: Paul Davison and Rohan Seth May 6, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:17 Guy Raz Slack and Airbnb and, you know, these, these huge Uber, I mean, these Uber would come later, but these huge companies that we talk about now were really kind of beginning to, um, to cut, to kind of crystallize.

Food52: Amanda Hesser Apr 5, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 51:14 Guy Raz We know that, that we now know that, like, I mean, Airbnb and Slack and all these companies started around that time.

How I Built Resilience: M. Night Shyamalan Feb 4, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:11 Guy Raz We've done Airbnb and Instagram and Slack and all those stories, and it's the same story.

How I Built Resilience: Daniela Corrente of Reel Dec 17, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:27 Daniela Corrente So higher conversion, so higher trust, which makes perfect sense because we live in the era of Airbnb and DoorDash, right?

The Lip Bar: Melissa Butler Nov 23, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 44:02 Melissa Butler Me and Roscoe ended up like Airbnb-ing her bedroom and she moved into my room so that we could like cover our expenses.

Khan Academy: Sal Khan Sep 21, 2020 · 1 mention

How I Built Resilience (Special Edition): Guy Raz Sep 12, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:49 Guy Raz You know, Airbnb, the guys who created Airbnb in 2008, they went to 20 investors.

Zocdoc: Oliver Kharraz Aug 17, 2020 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:31 Guy Raz This is the problem companies like Airbnb and Lyft had to solve. 2 times in the scene

How I Built Resilience: Brian Chesky of Airbnb Aug 13, 2020 · 54 mentions

  • ▶ 0:12 Guy Raz And on today's show, we're going to hear from Brian Chesky, the CEO and co-founder of Airbnb. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 0:42 Brian Chesky This has been by far for us the most difficult thing that we've experienced since we started the company a dozen years ago. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:55 Brian Chesky We spent 12 years building Airbnb, and then we lost 80% of business in eight weeks. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 6:43 Guy Raz How are you making sure that you're keeping morale among the people who, who are still working at Airbnb?
  • ▶ 8:08 Guy Raz You know, when we told the Airbnb story on the show, you had a lot of moments of despair, um, a lot of troughs of sorrow. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:36 Brian Chesky When the pandemic hit, we said, we are going to be decisive. 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 12:49 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, Brian tells us more about the travel trends we might start seeing this fall, and how Airbnb will try to respond to them.
  • ▶ 13:15 Guy Raz Earlier this year, Airbnb experienced an 80% drop in business, but CEO Brian Chesky says that people are traveling again, they're just not getting on planes, and they're staying much closer to home. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 16:01 Guy Raz Have you guys considered having a category of, like, houses suitable for work from home or quarantined homes, like a, like a little bit of category for those things? 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 16:53 Guy Raz I have to assume like with the hotel industry and the travel industry, a significant part of your business does come from business travelers, right? 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 19:11 Guy Raz You know, to this point of, of going public, I mean, is that on the back burner now of, of taking the company public? 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 20:17 Guy Raz What do you want to take with you into the future in five years time from now that you've really learned about yourself and your leadership and your company during this time period? 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 22:31 Guy Raz That's an excerpt from my conversation with Brian Chesky, CEO and co-founder of Airbnb.

Ring: Jamie Siminoff Jun 22, 2020 · 1 mention

Supergoop!: Holly Thaggard Jun 8, 2020 · 2 mentions

Fitbit: James Park Apr 27, 2020 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:25 Guy Raz When I spoke to James Park a few days ago, he was in San Francisco living in an Airbnb. 2 times in the scene

Stripe: Patrick and John Collison (2018) Mar 9, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:49 Guy Raz They sit through pitch after pitch, PowerPoint after PowerPoint, hoping that today will be the day, that one of these pitches will be the next Uber or Airbnb.

FUBU: Daymond John (2018) Nov 4, 2019 · 1 mention

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