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Alex Hormozi's Playbook for Building Billion-Dollar Businesses
- ▶ 37:13 Alex Hormozi And so like, I, you know, Zuckerberg didn't have a Airbnbs as a side hustle, you know what I mean?
- ▶ 41:45 John Coogan You're gonna put couches, it's gonna be called Airbnb, that makes no sense, right? 3 times in the scene
Jersey Mikes's IPO, AI Lab Nationalization, SpaceX AIPhone | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 13:47 John Coogan Early last year, Joe Gabbia, founder of Airbnb and current, uh, uh, US chief design officer recruited a handful of his most trusted early Airbnb engineers to embed at the Office of Personnel Management to solve the retirement paper problem. 2 times in the scene
Bezos' Prometheus Raises $12B, America Inc. Moves to Texas, Trucking Rebounds | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 3:40 unnamed speaker You got Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick, Coinbase co-founder Brian Armstrong, Robin Hood co-founder Vlad Tenev, also, uh, Brian Chesky over at Airbnb.
Cloudflare CEO Predicts AI Agents Will Outnumber Humans 1,000-to-1
- ▶ 27:12 Matthew Prince The problem with that is if you look at all the companies, uh, that, that have done that, so the Airbnbs and, and, uh, and others that they basically, you know, that's, that's great for your private market investors.
Google Raises $80B, Confidential IPO 101, OpenAI Expands Codex | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 23:54 John Coogan These Decacorns, you had Uber, Airbnb, DoorDash, Palantir. 3 times in the scene
Airbnb CEO on Why AI Will Create a New Era of Consumer Products
- ▶ 6:06 unnamed speaker Do you think a lot about what you would do if you were you from 10 or 15 years ago and you were trying to disrupt Airbnb? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:52 unnamed speaker Airbnb strengths again. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:00 Brian Chesky Airbnb hotel.
- ▶ 17:28 unnamed speaker Super intelligence in the enterprise, and vibe coding, and you're, 60% of Airbnb's code is written by AI now, and yet we don't have, like, a new triple-A game, or a new video game that everyone's playing, and I'm wondering, like, is that a… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:05 Brian Chesky And by the way, Airbnb was that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:30 Brian Chesky Said differently, if I were starting Airbnb today, I'd be vibe coding and cloud code. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:37 Brian Chesky When we started Airbnb, the app store was young.
- ▶ 29:24 unnamed speaker Yeah, looking out into the future, ah, you've ridden the growth of the short-term rental market, you dominate it now, is, is the biggest opportunity to just continue to make the best product in the category, ride the continued growth of… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:37 Brian Chesky Like, and they do, and if they didn't, we wouldn't be spending, like, a billion dollars here on advertising, so I want to admit that advertising does influence us more than we realize. 3 times in the scene
Andy Dunn is Building the App to Get You Off Your Phone
FULL INTERVIEW: Thomas Laffont’s Journey From Hollywood Assistant to Legendary Tech Investor
- ▶ 26:39 Thomas Laffont So it was, it was just kind of, you felt an Airbnb.
Benchmark’s Ship of Theseus, OpenAI Kills Sora, SpaceX $2T IPO Buzz | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 10:35 John Coogan And, uh, VC Bragg said, Airbnb has no homes, Uber has no cars, and Benchmark has no partners.
FULL INTERVIEW: Uber Founder Travis Kalanick is Back with a New AI Startup
- ▶ 22:57 Travis Kalanick Like Chesky at Airbnb, like that was the crew that was doing it in the 2010.
Becoming Unsloppable, Anthropic’s Series G, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 7:03 Jordi Hays Marketplaces, Airbnb, Uber, DoorDash, IP holders, Disney, Netflix, Warner Brothers.
Become Unsloppable: How to Survive the Great Software Collapse
- ▶ 8:52 Jordi Hays Marketplaces, Airbnb, Uber, DoorDash,
Sequoia Capital Partner Shaun Maguire Live on TBPN
- ▶ 17:10 Shaun Maguire You know, Airbnb, obviously, like Sequoia was the first investor or the seed round. 4 times in the scene
Don't Die CEO Bryan Johnson on Living Forever, AI & His $60M Blueprint For Immortality
- ▶ 31:42 Bryan Johnson So we got customers like Airbnb, Uber, GitHub, uh, we got all the Gen Z people, and then Venmo had done a fantastic job building out consumer side, and we could then marry those two demographics, and it's like, perfect.
Brian Chesky Live on TBPN
- ▶ 1:01 unnamed speaker Um, yeah, uh, we, we, we were reviewing, um, uh, some of the, the, the, the more recent shifts in your strategy at Airbnb. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:30 Brian Chesky And I think, you know, Jeff Bezos told me really early on, this is more of a press thing, but he said, I'm, and this is when Airbnb was on magazine covers when they had magazines and, you know, 10 years ago, and we were gone covers. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:32 unnamed speaker Airbnb doesn't feel like a, you know, Salesforce-type company where you're just gonna buy up a bunch of B&B SaaS companies every, every couple weeks. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:59 Brian Chesky At the same time, if I was an investor, I'd want to know that Airbnb management was mostly focused on growing the company and making the company more valuable.
- ▶ 14:14 unnamed speaker Uh, Airbnb hasn't had that problem, but as I think about new products, whether, I mean, we actually went through this whole era of like Airbnb for dog walkers, Airbnb for house cleaners, and the problem with those product, those platforms… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:29 Brian Chesky Apps four through 50, including ours, or most of them, are not AI native apps. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:39 unnamed speaker To go back to Airbnb a little bit, I'd love your take on, uh, where culture is going in the era of, like, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:36 Brian Chesky And I learned a couple of lessons from bodybuilding too, that I bring to Airbnb. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI Drops A Web Browser? Our Reactions | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 10:18 Jordi Hays What's funny is like, I, I think of Airbnb as a community from like day one. 4 times in the scene
Google Makes MAJOR Cancer Research Breakthrough | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 11:39 unnamed speaker For example, like, if Airbnb comes out with a launch video, I, like, expect it to be incredible, because it's Airbnb, and they probably spent, like, half a million dollars, like, producing this ad. 2 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Sam vs. Elon, Cluely's Crazy Ad, UFC x Paramount, Apple's AI Robot
- ▶ 1:34:36 Everett Randle The best place to create network effects is in a digital marketplace, like an Uber and Airbnb or a DoorDash. 2 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Gwyneth Paltrow Saves Astronomer, Figma’s IPO, Top AI Researchers Ranked
- ▶ 1:13:07 Andrew Reed I remember Airbnb and Square were in our portfolio and we talked to them before we invested and they were, you know, early at pioneering this, you know, we're getting off of the Dropbox links being sent around and we're, you know, we're…
Weekly Recap: Tesla Robotaxi, Mr. Beast's AI Tool, Yacine, The Social Network 2, Neuralink Update
- ▶ 1:57:09 John Coogan And maybe he'll draw, maybe he'll like pump his bags a little bit by like talking about Airbnb, but he's talking about like what Airbnb did in like 2009 or something. 3 times in the scene
We Interviewed the Best Startups From YC Demo Day (June 2025)
Weekly Recap: Elon's Starship Explodes, OpenAI's Defense Contract, Nvidia's Robots, We Test Cluely
- ▶ 49:02 John Coogan In 20, 20, in 20, 20, he left Twitter to found Surge and picked up some of his first customers, executives from Airbnbs and Neva, a once promising AI search engine startup, as only, uh, as only a founder in San Francisco might bumping into…
- ▶ 2:08:47 George Hotz Or Airbnb.
Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale
- ▶ 4:47 John Coogan The Airbnb app and the public.com app and the ramp.com app.
- ▶ 2:01:29 Garry Tan You look at an Airbnb, I still super, I'm still, you know, bullish on Airbnb in that you look at the amount of space in the world. 2 times in the scene
We Interviewed the New Thiel Fellow Dropouts
- ▶ 1:58:22 unnamed speaker And in August, Steven and I went down to DC, just rented out an Airbnb for a month and just had this
Missing PayPal and Google Made Him a Better Investor | Ali Partovi on TBPN
- ▶ 2:10 Ali Partovi Kind of Airbnb.
- ▶ 6:29 Ali Partovi And then before I know it, like this guy's pitching me his, you know, his thing, Airbnb.
Building Durable Brands in Venture Capital | David Tisch on TBPN
- ▶ 5:47 John Coogan Do you think that there are going to be stories from this, uh, tariff cycle that are like what happened in COVID where everyone was, like, Airbnb was particularly hurting as a startup. 4 times in the scene
What AI and LEGO Have in Common | Flo Crivello on TBPN April 7th
- ▶ 2:26 Flo Crivello I need to book a flight, find an Airbnb, and get a rental car. 2 times in the scene
Why the MARKET Is More FRAGILE Than EVER | Bryce Roberts on TBPN April 7th
- ▶ 1:47 Bryce Roberts I can't, can't, can't do Airbnbs, can't do, uh, can't, you know.
- ▶ 2:02 Jordi Hays We don't do, we don't do, we don't do your airbnbs either.
Is AI UNDERVALUED? | Scott Wu on TBPN April 3rd
- ▶ 1:33 unnamed speaker And he said, uh, the top six US companies in terms of unicorns are Uber, Palantir, Airbnb, Dropbox, 2 times in the scene
The GREAT VC AI DEBATE between Slow Ventures and Greylock Partners.
- ▶ 20:46 Seth Rosenberg It didn't kill Airbnb, but it created Uber.
"Don't listen to anyone" - Shaun Maguire talks Elon, Robots, Space, and the Mars Mission.
- ▶ 19:53 Shaun Maguire Um, you know, Air Sequoia was a seed investor in Airbnb. 2 times in the scene
The FULL HISTORY of Temu (Why it's EXPLODING!)
- ▶ 18:13 unnamed speaker I know that there's people that are running Airbnbs right now that are like, this is amazing for my margins.
The Future of Defense Technology
- ▶ 11:04 unnamed speaker That time has long passed in part because Uber, Lyft, SpaceX, and Airbnb kicked down the doors. 2 times in the scene
The Internet’s Most Famous Drug Dealer (Ross Ulbricht)
- ▶ 17:49 unnamed speaker And so looking at, and just to compare this to another company like Airbnb, I got launched out of this era, Airbnb innovated on the vacation rental. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:13 unnamed speaker Even on Airbnb, somebody will book an Airbnb for like two weeks and then they'll talk to the owner and they'll be like, Hey, like, can I just book it through you and like save on the Airbnb fees? 4 times in the scene
Trump Coin Takeover (What's Next for Crypto)
- ▶ 0:41 unnamed speaker And then ended up extending our, our Airbnb for another week.
The END of TikTok?
- ▶ 56:40 John Coogan Even Airbnb had some weird structure there, and that didn't work.
The Businesses Making $$$ off Disaster Relief
- ▶ 1:47:23 Jordi Hays I've used Airbnb.
- ▶ 1:58:52 Jordi Hays we, uh, when, when I posted about some issues I was having with Airbnb over the weekend, Kyle Tibbets over at Wander reached out and was like, hey, let us get you set up. 3 times in the scene
Can This Man Save Los Angeles? (Rick Caruso)
- ▶ 1:01:37 Jordi Hays And just post up, I bet there's cheap hotels, hostels, Airbnbs, that kind of things.
The END of Ski Season? (E26)
- ▶ 1:51:10 John Coogan Energy for our nuclear portfolio company, but we really only have one, and then we need to change some things at the DoD, but we're really only in Anderle, and then, you know, oh, we also need to change something with like housing, because…
You are NOT a Lottery Ticket (Peter Thiel Breakdown)
CHRISTIANITY: Why it's making a comeback (ep23)
- ▶ 6:33 John Coogan With the opening of a twelve million dollar space just down the street from the headquarters of Pinterest and Airbnb, acquired two years ago to accommodate a flock that has ballooned to nearly a thousand people every Sunday.
Surviving a VC Holiday Party (ep22)
- ▶ 53:39 Jordi Hays Coinbase, uh, Lucy, uh, uh, uh, Airbnb, right?
How we became the fastest growing podcast (ep20)
- ▶ 13:44 John Coogan And, uh, it's, it starts with Alfred Lin became one of Silicon Valley's most sought after venture capitalist after his, after his early bets on companies like Airbnb and DoorDash. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:09:17 John Coogan I mean, you go back, Airbnb was a different company.
CEO Assassination Deep Dive (ep19)
- ▶ 1:19:50 unnamed speaker but I, I, I think the important, the important psychological thing from the fact that ChatGPT has a 200 dollar a month plan is that, um, you just don't want to be Airbnb charging more for a room than the hotels.
Inside Facebooks Secret "Red Book" (ep18)
- ▶ 1:44:24 John Coogan Uh, Jesse Powell says, uh, POV, you are staying in a 1000 dollar a night Airbnb, and it's a picture of, uh, Amazon basics, um, polyester sheets, I guess. 4 times in the scene
Taylor Lorenz Trades Teams (ep16)
- ▶ 45:03 Jordi Hays It's probably massively against the terms, but so is Airbnb in many ways in the early days.
- ▶ 47:13 John Coogan And then it was just Paul, Paul Graham, Coinbase, Airbnb, Stripe.
Who's Getting Rich Off Ozempic? (e12)
- ▶ 1:31:35 Jordi Hays Like make an Airbnb that's just a Lego house.
What is the TRUMP BUBBLE? (ep11)
- ▶ 34:51 John Coogan Uh, uh, like the early Zuck deal is legendary Airbnb and Stripe, but like Sequoia is just in a different tier when it comes to the legacy stuff, like Nvidia.
Fact-Checking The Information (ep10)
- ▶ 28:48 John Coogan Coinbase or Airbnb, like the, those would never have fit into requests for startups at the time.
Inside JD Vance's Portfolio (ep8)
- ▶ 2:36 John Coogan It's a ChatGBD, ChatGDP, like they couldn't remember it, but once it got stuck in the mind, it was iconic, like Airbnb, like Google.
- ▶ 1:26:19 unnamed speaker Uh, I knew some guys that were working on, on sort of Airbnb for medical
- ▶ 1:37:03 John Coogan Let's go to Brian Chesky, founder of Airbnb.
Trump's Secret Career (ep7)
- ▶ 2:29:49 John Coogan And there are some companies, I forget if it's Airbnb.
- ▶ 3:04:03 John Coogan Like if you, if you, if you're in YC and you can sell to, yeah, if you can sell to Airbnb and Stripe and Coinbase, like that's pretty durable revenue.
The Secret Billionaire Party (ep6)
- ▶ 1:48:33 John Coogan So if I have a ton of land, I can, it's like Airbnb for hunting territory.