Joe Gebbia

Founder, Samara · 1 appearance on the record.

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Gebbia is best known as the co-founder and former Chief Product Officer of Airbnb, which he started in 2008 with Brian Chesky and Nathan Blecharczyk. After stepping down from day-to-day operations at Airbnb in 2022, he founded the prefab housing company Samara, joined Tesla's board of directors, and later took on a federal design leadership role.

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The record, in short

What the tape says about how Joe argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Gebbia: Airbnb sold out of Obama O's cereal at $40 per box
“So we did a limited production run to make it a collectible item, and we actually sold these through the website. It just so happens that We ended up selling out of the Obama hose. Each box sold for 40 dollars.”
Joe Gebbia Jan 28, 2010 ▶ 37:33 #216 How Clever Entrepreneurs Turned 3 Air Mattresses Into Airbnb, The Site That Makes Any Home A Bed And Breakfast – with Brian and Joe

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Insight
Gebbia: Startups unwilling to do unscalable things may never reach scale
“I think if you don't, if you're not willing to do things that don't scale, you may never get to the point where you have to scale to begin with, right?”
Joe Gebbia Jan 28, 2010 ▶ 50:37 #216 How Clever Entrepreneurs Turned 3 Air Mattresses Into Airbnb, The Site That Makes Any Home A Bed And Breakfast – with Brian and Joe
Assertion Supported
Gebbia: Airbnb sold out of Obama O's cereal at $40 per box
“So we did a limited production run to make it a collectible item, and we actually sold these through the website. It just so happens that We ended up selling out of the Obama hose. Each box sold for 40 dollars.”
Joe Gebbia Jan 28, 2010 ▶ 37:33 #216 How Clever Entrepreneurs Turned 3 Air Mattresses Into Airbnb, The Site That Makes Any Home A Bed And Breakfast – with Brian and Joe
Assertion Supported
Gebbia: Airbnb originally required all listings to attach to specific conferences
“At the time, we were just housing for conferences. You had to list a room to an event. When the event was over, the listing went away.”
Joe Gebbia Jan 28, 2010 ▶ 23:27 #216 How Clever Entrepreneurs Turned 3 Air Mattresses Into Airbnb, The Site That Makes Any Home A Bed And Breakfast – with Brian and Joe

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
#216 How Clever Entrepreneurs Turned 3 Air Mattresses Into Airbnb, The Site That Makes Any Jan 28, 2010 10m
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