Airbnb
also referred to as: airbnbs
includes Airbnb Experiences
34 statements across 24 episodes · 17 bullish · 5 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Apr 3, 2020 by Sam Parr · said 333 times in 116 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
Mentions by year, the whole family
brought up most by Shaan Puri (151), Sam Parr (127), Justin Mares (12), Nick Gray (7), Isaac French (7), Jeff Bonforte (4), Andrew Wilkinson (4), David Perell (3)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 14 mentions in 3 episodes 5 per episode
2025 37 mentions in 17 episodes 2 per episode
- We spent 48 hours with MrBeast + 11 Billionaires
- How two straight guys bought Grindr and made $2B
- I Failed 12 Times Before Making My First Million (Here's Every Failure)
- How NOT to Make $1,000,000 (I Tried 17 Ways)
- The Most Valuable Skill For Any Founder
- 5 under-the-radar trends (+ our business ideas)
- if you didn't make progress in 2025, watch the first 10 minutes.
- Ideas That Sound Illegal (But Print Money Anyway)
- 9 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 91 mentions in 34 episodes 3 per episode
- How I Went From Broke to $7 Million With An Airbnb Business
- 10 Startups w/ Stock Grants That’ll Make You A Millionaire | Sara’s List 2024
- The Wild Story of Mike Lynch’s Rise From Janitor to Tech Billionaire
- Life Hacks From The King of Introverts + 7 Business Ideas
- How This +$80M Founder Launches A Startup In A Weekend | ft. Noah Kagain (#546)
- Business Tricks We've Learned From Gamblers, Pickup Artists, & Feynman
- How To Master Storytelling ft. David Perell
- How Gary Vee Predicts The Next Facebook (Every Time)
- 26 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 12 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
- How We Got Our First 100 Customers (No Bulls**t, Specific Details) (#534)
- If I Could Start Over Again, This Is What I’d Do To Get Rich - Scott Galloway
- Brainstorming ChatGPT Business Ideas With A Billionaire | ft. Dharmesh Shah (#438)
- Behind The Scenes of Selling My Company For Millions | Suli Ali (#410)
- 5 Internet Goldmines To Spot The Next $1B Trend | Steph Smith (#529)
- 3 Business Ideas You Should Start in 2024 (ft. Pomp) (#524)
- Favorite Finds: McDonald's Employee Goes Viral, Pelosi's Finances & How To Close A Deal (#498)
- Sam Reveals The Company He's Worked On For The Last 8 Month
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2022 54 mentions in 18 episodes 3 per episode
- Asking Colin & Samir How To Make $1,000,000 On YouTube
- The 2022 Milly Awards (#401)
- How Successful Startups Got Their First 1000 Customers (Uber, Product Hunt & More) (#362)
- Solana Billionaires, MFM Goes Viral on TikTok, Right to Be Forgotten, and More
- University of Michigan Students Pitch Us Their Startups | $5000 Prize Money (#396)
- How This OnlyFans Model Built A $40 Million Business Empire (#383)
- We Hosted A Shark Tank For Tech Startups | My First Million Demo Day (#356)
- 6 Profitable Business Ideas You Should Start in 2022
- 10 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 98 mentions in 34 episodes 3 per episode
- How to launch a $100M DTC brand | My First Million #194
- How to Make Millions by Unbundling Etsy | My First Million #207
- How Course Businesses Work & How Irish Pubs as a Service is Making Millions | My First Million #183
- Holiday Special: Great Finds (Products, Apps, Media)
- What It's Like to Be Rich & How to Respond to Growth Plateaus | My First Million #188
- How a City Tour is Making Millions, & Selling Manhood | My First Million # 177
- 12 Startups Where Stock Grants Can Make You a Millionaire | My First Million #220
- MFM #172 - Advice to Young Entrepreneurs, Indie Businesses Making Millions, & How to Grow a Podcast
- 26 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
Everything said about Airbnb, oldest first
Apr 3, 2020 positive
Apr 3, 2020 negative
Puri: SF Rental Regulations Cut Airbnb Listings by 30-40%
“They changed some rules here in San Francisco where it's like, you can only do 90 days out of the year and you have to live in the place. You have to prove that blah, blah, blah. And that, that, you know, it eliminated like 30 or 40% of the listings overnight …”
Apr 5, 2021 bullish
Jun 9, 2021 negative
Jun 9, 2021 negative
Jun 25, 2021 positive
Mares converted a 14-unit Las Vegas building to Airbnb, tripling cash flow
“We ended up doing this too with an apartment building in, in Vegas where we bought a 14 unit apartment building, could put it all on Airbnb basically like tripled the cashflow and then sold it. 18 months later for, you know, it's 70% more than what we paid.”
Jun 25, 2021 positive
Mares made $15K-$18K monthly via Airbnb arbitrage in San Francisco in 2013
“In 2013, we had, like, the number third, like, the third ranked Airbnb in San Francisco, and so we were we were, like, renting out either our living room most nights, or you know, over summers, we'd rent it out for, like, 15, 18 grand a month, and then we just…”
Jul 23, 2021 positive
Photo quality is the primary differentiator between winning and losing Airbnb listings
“And my wife works at Airbnb and I think she has told me, I don't remember if who told me, I think it was her that told me that the number one difference between a winning Airbnb and a losing Airbnb is the pictures.”
Dec 9, 2021
Sam Parr: Elite Olympic Track Athletes Make Very Little Money
“And I was talking to them about money and they don't make anything like some of them like have little Airbnbs on the side or they bought a car to put on Toro. And one of them got is an American record holder in her event. Another one won a gold medal.”
Dec 21, 2021 neutral
Sam Parr: Rohin Dhar owns 8 to 12 Airbnb properties across the US
“And this guy, he owns, I think, 12 or 10 or eight, somewhere in that eight to 12 range. He owns eight single family homes in New Mexico, in California, Hawaii, wherever. And you can go and look and he'll kind of show you where they are and I'll show pictures o…”
Jan 12, 2022 neutral
Sep 15, 2022 neutral
Puri: Early Airbnb founders personally photographed New York listings
“They talked about the early Airbnb guys, how they used to go and they themselves would go and call all the hosts of their New York Airbnbs. They would go to their houses. They would take professional looking photos so that the listings look better.”
Dec 29, 2022 positive
Sep 4, 2023 positive
Shaan Puri: Y Combinator Is Probably the Most Successful Tech Startup
“Paul Graham, who created YC, which is, I think probably the most successful tech startup actually, because it created sure all these other tech startups and like I created Dropbox and it created Airbnb. They probably wouldn't like to say created, but like they…”
Oct 24, 2023 negative
Galloway: Wealthy individuals should sell concentrated single stocks and buy index funds
“Like you're, quite frankly, you should be selling down your Airbnb and your HubSpot stock and just letting, you don't need the needle in a haystack. You just need to buy the whole haystack because you've got enough capital.”
Oct 24, 2023 positive
Feb 2, 2024 positive
Shaan Puri: Airbnb founder Joe Gebbia's sales formula is SW²+WC=MO
“So this is the Airbnb founders sales formula and it's SW squared plus WC equals MO. So I don't know if you can, if you've ever heard that, he's like, everybody heard this for like, no, he goes, no. So here's what it stands for. Some will, some won't. Who cares…”
Feb 2, 2024 bullish
May 22, 2024 neutral
May 22, 2024 positive
Gary Vee kept an overlooked pitch email from Airbnb's Joe Gebbia
“I have an email from Joe that says, Gary, we're fans. We want you to Look at our company, and it was joe at airbedandbreakfast.com. And I never saw it, you know, or maybe I did, and just like, but I look at that email, I have it on a separate laptop, and I loo…”
Jun 28, 2024 positive
Puri: YC's Biggest Wins Came From Founders Scratching Their Own Itches
“The biggest Successes out of YC have typically been that, right? The Airbnb guys renting out their own apartment to make hay, or Brian Armstrong doing Coinbase because he lived in Argentina and dealt with the currency issues and was interested in Bitcoin. Thes…”
Sep 20, 2024 positive
Sep 20, 2024 bearish
Sep 20, 2024 neutral
Oct 8, 2024 positive
Puri: Y Combinator returned 320x in its first decade
“The first 10 years of YC, they basically turned like something like twelve million dollars Into, like, ten billion dollars of value for them, from themselves, because they were writing super small checks early on and getting basically, like, was seven percent?…”
Oct 10, 2024 neutral
May 5, 2025 positive
Oct 3, 2025 bullish
Shaan Puri: The next major wave of AI applications will be multiplayer
“Every AI tool right now is single player. He's like, ChatGPT is just a tool you use yourself, and same thing with the image creators, and same thing with almost all of the tools are still single player, but the internet has showed us that, like, all the most p…”
Nov 17, 2025
Parr: First Liquid Million Came From Airbnb IPO and Company Sale
“So, cash, like cash million, I made it when my wife worked at Airbnb, and it went public. And that, that's when we made our first. And then about three months later, I think it went later in December, my company sold in February, and then we made a lot. Leadin…”
Nov 17, 2025
Feb 20, 2026
Apr 27, 2026
Sep 4, 2026 positive
Parr: Local food and history experiences can generate hundreds of thousands annually
“It's not easy, but it's fairly simple. They can turn very passionate local experiences into thriving businesses. If I had to guess, you can make many hundreds of thousands of dollars a year doing experiences based off of history and food just like this.”