Airbnb
5 statements across 4 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement May 13, 2024 by Andrew Lockhead · said 101 times in 40 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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brought up most by Pablo Srugo (44), Merrill Lutsky (8), Andrew Lockhead (7), Cody Ruberto (6), Mateo Marietti (5), Marty Kausas (5), Viraj Parekh (4), Chris Saad (3)
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2026 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2025 40 mentions in 20 episodes 2 per episode
- He hit $1M ARR in 10 months—after doing of a full, 180 pivot. | Merrill Lutsky, Founder of Graphite · PMF Show
- The secrets to mastering product-led growth. | Wes Bush, Author of the #1 Bestselling Book on Pro... · PMF Show
- He killed a $100K ARR product & pivoted—then raised $375M. | Viraj Parekh, Co-Founder of Astronomer · PMF Show
- He lost 90% of his users overnight—then grew his consumer app to $10M ARR. | Koen Droste, Founder... · PMF Show
- The 5 Steps to Product-Market Fit w/ Chris Saad, ex-Head of Product at Uber, Host of The Startup ... · PMF Show
- Mike Maples: Your Startup Idea Isn’t Crazy Enough—And it's holding you back | Mike Maples, Founde... · PMF Show
- He raised $30M & failed. Then raised $0 & grew to $550M in revenue. Here's what he learned. | Mik... · PMF Show
- He tested his idea in one weekend—then raised $120M. | Wayne Slavin, Founder of Sure · PMF Show
- 12 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 51 mentions in 15 episodes 3 per episode
- COVID nearly bankrupted him. Then with AI he grew from $0 to $25M ARR in 4 years. | Andrew Lockhe... · PMF Show
- How to beat your main competitor · PMF Show
- He launched an Uber competitor with just $3,000—& grew to $20M in revenue in 7 years. | Cody Rube... · PMF Show
- The Product Market Fit Pyramid · PMF Show
- YC said his idea "would never work". So he lived in his office for months—then raised $17M from a... · PMF Show
- He grew to $90M ARR, was about to exit for $1.5B—and then, it all fell apart. | Yanni Giannaros, ... · PMF Show
- Sean Ellis led growth at Dropbox—& invented growth hacking. Here's his step-by-step growth guide.... · PMF Show
- How to build great products—lessons from Amazon, Facebook, Twitter & Deel. | Aaron Goldsmid, Head... · PMF Show
- 7 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
Everything said about Airbnb, oldest first
May 13, 2024 bearish
Building a direct B2C travel brand is nearly impossible against established incumbents
“And for us, we always came to the conclusion that they're always going to end on their direct brand. Booker.com, Airbnb, Expedia, wherever they have more loyalty points. So for us to create such a strong brand that we will be able to attract customers to us, w…”
May 13, 2024 negative
Airbnb's 2021 affiliate program shutdown wiped out 72% of Stay22's supply
“March 20, 21, we lost our biggest supplier, which was Airbnb. So Airbnb decided to drop complicated affiliation platform. They wanted to go public. So go with the S one show that 95% of people go direct to Airbnb. So they shut down everyone and Airbnb was repr…”
Jan 9, 2025 neutral
Founders Misunderstand the Advice to Do Things That Don't Scale
“What they were doing was going out and taking the first few photos to set the bar for their scalable marketplace. So they did things that don't scale to bootstrap a scalable marketplace. And that's the part, but that's the second part of the sentence. That mos…”
Jul 17, 2025
Maples: A startup's only advantage is turning incumbents' strengths into weaknesses
“When you're a startup, the only advantage you have is your ability to change the subject. And so you want to have something that disorients the incumbents that turns, you know, Airbnb, they didn't try to have a better hotel. They turned the strengths of hotels…”
Dec 18, 2025
Astronomer First Used Airflow as Hidden Backend Infrastructure
“The first version we built of that product, we built that backend orchestration piece. We used a cloud native service for that, something called SWF, Simple Workflows. And that was good, but what we found was we needed something a lot more dynamic, and we need…”