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▶ 12:28 Bret Taylor You can see those founders really transform from being one thing to many things.

▶ 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.

▶ 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?

▶ 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.

▶ 1:39:40 Logan Ury Like, there was definitely a moment a few years later where I kind of blew up my life, where I left this steady job that I had at Airbnb, and I moved to New York for a few months to do this TED program, and

▶ 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

▶ 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

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