Airbnb, every mention
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every year anyone Alfred Lin 16Shane Parrish 7Mike Maples Jr. 7Garry Tan 6Jason Calacanis 4Vlad Tenev 2Neil Pasricha 2Codie Sanchez 2Bret Taylor 2Ben Thompson 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Airbnb comes up
Alpha School: AI and The Future of Education | Joe Liemandt
- ▶ 1:06:33 Joe Liemandt It really is like our fifth and sixth graders launching food trucks, running Airbnbs, right?
The Near Death Experience of RobinHood | Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder
- ▶ 17:28 Vlad Tenev Airbnb, which we always, to some degree, like, 2 times in the scene
Be Your Best in 2026: The Most Important Lessons from The Knowledge Project (2025)
- ▶ 12:28 Bret Taylor You can see those founders really transform from being one thing to many things.
Elad Gil: How to Spot a Billion-Dollar Startup Before the Rest of the World
- ▶ 1:35 Shane Parrish He invested early in Stripe, Airbnb, Notion, Coinbase, Andrel, and so many others.
- ▶ 2:14 Shane Parrish You've had a front row seat at some of the biggest, I would say surprises in a way, like Stripe, Coinbase, Airbnb, when they were just ideas. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:40 Elad Gil Um, the Airbnb founders, two of them were out of RISD, the Rhode Island Institute of, uh, of design.
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Turning Ambitious Misfits into Founders
- ▶ 6:31 Garry Tan And, um, you know, Dropbox, then Airbnb, then, you know, today, you know, Coinbase, um, you know, DoorDash. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:14 Garry Tan You don't want to start a restaurant, for instance, because there's infinite competition for restaurants, but you do want to start, ah, you know, something like Airbnb that has network effects or, um.
- ▶ 39:09 Garry Tan I mean, at Airbnb, they were dealing with the financial systems of
- ▶ 48:43 Garry Tan We brought Paul and Jessica back from England, and, um, we had this one talk that wasn't even on the agenda, but I managed to text, um, Brian Chesky of Airbnb, and I got him to come and speak, um, very openly and honestly in front of
- ▶ 1:06:22 Garry Tan You know, Google probably could have done what Airbnb did, but it didn't because Google's Google, right?
Bret Taylor: A Vision for AI’s Next Frontier
- ▶ 22:14 Bret Taylor And I think as you see, um, uh, founders, you know, grow from doing one thing to growing, to be in a real meaningful company like Airbnb or Meta or something.
Logan Ury: The Dating Myths You Need to Stop Believing
How to Win by Being Right and Contrarian: Lessons from Zappos to DoorDash
- ▶ 25:40 Alfred Lin Maybe in the early days of Airbnb, I, I think people forget it was much more of a listing service, and it was less of a marketplace, and if you sort of take the definition of a marketplace, you have to complete the transaction, and you… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:22 Alfred Lin And I think if you ask, uh, Tony Hsu at DoorDash or Brian Chesky at Airbnb, they would probably say the same thing.
- ▶ 1:13:38 Alfred Lin At Airbnb, there have been a number of crucible moments as well, one of which started very early on that Brian Chesky talks about a lot, which was the PR crisis with, um, uh, a guest trashing a host, um, and that led to host guarantees,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:12 Alfred Lin I'll give you, I'll give you an example from, from Airbnb. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:20 Alfred Lin So because, you know, Airbnb was the poster child of the number one IPO possibility for 2020, and they had seen their revenue go down to 80%. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:27:35 Alfred Lin You know, in Airbnb's case, they had to read, they had to change cross-border travel to local travel. 2 times in the scene
Codie Sanchez: Your Blueprint to Financial Freedom
- ▶ 2:00:45 Codie Sanchez They probably are pretty high earners, and they're doing things like they're buying a series of hotels or Airbnbs and running those simultaneously. 2 times in the scene
Charlie Hoehn: Write Something People Want to Read
- ▶ 45:03 Charlie Hoehn People should lean more toward Brene Brown's production style, where she actually will come up with, like, her talking points and rent an Airbnb, bring her girlfriends and a bunch of wine, and be like, can I just, like, present this to you…
Chris Davis: Three Generations of Wealth
- ▶ 2:07:58 Shane Parrish And we rented this dingy Airbnb without air conditioning.
Rey Flemings: A Different Definition of Success
- ▶ 7:40 Rey Flemings Well, there's Airbnb for that.
Neil Pasricha: Simple Rules for Happiness
- ▶ 1:38:14 Neil Pasricha And he said that when they evaluated what actually created memorable experiences on vacation at Airbnb. 2 times in the scene
Reid Hoffman: Better Decisions, Fewer Mistakes
- ▶ 1:33 Shane Parrish Reid is on the board of Microsoft and was on the board of Airbnb for a decade.
- ▶ 2:19 Shane Parrish I think the place that I want to start is you've been involved in some of the biggest sort of like scaling companies that we know of today, either through investing like Airbnb, hands-on sort of like PayPal and LinkedIn.
- ▶ 23:14 Shane Parrish You've had over a thousand board meetings between Microsoft, Airbnb, LinkedIn, PayPal, and more.
#98 Sahil Lavingia: Observing the Present
- ▶ 32:22 Sahil Lavingia Like there's something about Airbnb.
#81 Jason Calacanis: Intelligent Risk
- ▶ 21:46 Jason Calacanis And Airbnb is the same thing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:15 Jason Calacanis So people are going to be able to go on a website, learn how to do scripting, and build workflows that would be similar to Airbnb. 2 times in the scene
#77 Mike Maples: Living in the Future
- ▶ 4:43 Mike Maples Jr. Companies that we should have invested in, like Airbnb, and we passed on it, and none of those mental models would have been helpful. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:51 Mike Maples Jr. And I looked at all the companies that we had passed on that we should have invested in, Airbnb, Pinterest, um, who else, PagerDuty, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:30 Mike Maples Jr. Yeah, so a great example of the earned secret is Brian Chesky at Airbnb. 2 times in the scene
#40 Ben Thompson: Thriving in a Digital World
- ▶ 53:01 Ben Thompson And so what, what a company like Airbnb, for example, did was it, it took that trust, which is very hard to build and develop and, and companies would spend, you know, hundreds of billions of dollars and lots of time on building brands.
- ▶ 1:10:35 Ben Thompson If, if Airbnb sort of digitized trust, uh, Netflix digitized time, like the linear sort of TV schedule that was the sort of like the, the key constraint on TV was now completely gone.
#32 Patrick Collison: Earning Your Stripes
- ▶ 1:40:58 Patrick Collison Uh, and you can see it now in the sort of latest generation of upstarts, you know, be it Twitter, or Uber, or Airbnb, or Lyft, or whatever, who are, you know, facing these really significant kind of, you know, structural headwinds.
#5 Chris Dixon: The State of Venture Capital
- ▶ 28:15 Chris Dixon You know, another one will be kind of like, you know, maybe like Airbnb, where it's just, for whatever reason, it seems like those founders, you know, kind of were part of a certain cultural movement, um, that was, you know, uh, around,…