Airbnb
7 statements across 4 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement May 30, 2024 by Casey Winters · said 48 times in 13 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Brett Berson (16), Karri Saarinen (11), Casey Winters (4), Imad Akhund (3), Sam Chaudhary (2), Yuhki Yamashita (1), Will Larson (1), Oliver Jay (1)
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2025 27 mentions in 4 episodes 7 per episode
- Inside Linear: Why craft and focus still win in product building | Karri Saarinen (Co-founder & CEO)
- Ignoring Silicon Valley advice to build a $3B fintech unicorn (Mercury)
- Starting an education giant in a “bad market” | ClassDojo’s story | Sam Chaudhary (Co-founder & CEO)
- How rejecting conventional wisdom grew Sentry to a $3 billion company | David Cramer (Co-founder)
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2024 19 mentions in 7 episodes 3 per episode
- How to build and scale winning marketplaces | Casey Winters (Eventbrite, Pinterest, Grubhub)
- How to find & pull startup growth levers | Matt Lerner (Founder of SYSTM, Author of Growth Levers)
- How Figma taps into taste, simplicity, and storytelling | Yuhki Yamashita (CPO)
- Inside marketing at Stripe, OpenAI and Retool | Krithika Muthukumar (VP of Marketing at OpenAI)
- How to be effective up and down the org chart | Matt MacInnis (Rippling, Inkling, Apple)
- Inside Figma’s early days: How to build a world-class sales org | Kyle Parrish (VP of Sales)
- The new PLG playbook | Arming the next generation of product-led companies | Oliver Jay (Asana)
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
Everything said about Airbnb, oldest first
May 30, 2024 positive
Winters: Asset marketplaces win by requiring low initial supplier effort before raising standards
“So then there's the example of, okay, you actually have an asset that can be leveraged for the marketplace. And generally the way those models win, whether it's, you know, Airbnb or like Hipcamp is a company that I spent a lot of time working with. You're aski…”
May 30, 2024 bearish
Berson: Low rental payouts prevent peer-to-peer car sharing from scaling
“Even though someone has an asset that is not being utilized, it's hard to pay them enough to get them to actually move and care and give someone their keys and let someone take the car because they're getting nine dollars an hour or 15 dollars a day or 45 doll…”
May 30, 2024 negative
Dec 5, 2024 positive
Figma prioritized features by building for Facebook and Airbnb's advanced workflows
“We actually talked to, spent a lot of time with the customers at the most sophisticated design teams. So back then, that was like a Facebook and Airbnb. They represented the future of design teams, like where design teams might be in two or three years. So how…”
Jun 5, 2025 positive
Saarinen: High-speed, high-output projects always come from small teams
“All the projects that I was part of, what were the projects that went really well, like where the output was really good, where the speed was really fast or executing execution speed was really fast. And it was always like projects where we had a small team wo…”
Jun 5, 2025 negative
Saarinen: Startup success enables mass hiring, not the other way around
“I don't actually believe that those people are needed for the success. It's more that the company is so successful that they can hire these people. So it's like when you have the growth there, you are able to do that. That's the lesson people should take from …”
Sep 3, 2025 positive
Transforming an industry means serving consumers, not incumbent suppliers
“If you're building Airbnb and you want to transform hospitality, you don't start by selling software to hotels that might make hotels a little bit better, a little bit more efficient, whatever. But it doesn't massively transform the experience for the end user…”