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Zynga Founder: Consumer Is Not Investible Right Now - Thats Why You Should Build It · Y Combinator
- ▶ 24:19 Mark Pincus It got Airbnb to where they are, and so much of it is Brian having the confidence, but also creating the context with everyone around him, that if he comes in on Monday and doesn't like that product, is he able to tell the team that, or…
- ▶ 32:01 Mark Pincus Even though consumer is arguably not investable right now, I do think that oddly the opportunity has never been greater to offer people a new, you know, internet treasure and reinvent some service that we thought was over or just generic,…
The Most AI-Pilled CEO We Know · Y Combinator
- ▶ 19:02 Pedro Franceschi Um, you look at Airbnb is like the website, the website was a form and the form was just like literally where you inputted what you needed.
Startup Advice: AI GTM, Pivoting & How To Hire · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:57 Gustaf Alströmer That's just not recommended, and it's going to be difficult many times, and the more, like, at Airbnb we had this metric, which was percent of technical people that work at the company, and the reason we had the metric is, at some point… 2 times in the scene
The FDE Playbook for AI Startups with Bob McGrew · Y Combinator
- ▶ 16:38 Bob McGrew And so, um, the product that you're building, instead of being highly verticalized and, you know, this is one flow that millions of people are going to be going through, like if you're building Airbnb, right?
How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M Legal AI Startup (With No Legal Experience) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 34:51 Gustaf Alströmer And my learning from Airbnb, which probably I'm sure applies to you, is the culture in the beginning is the people that you hire.
Dylan Field: Scaling Figma and the Future of Design · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:38 unnamed speaker Yeah, I mean, we've had some popular redesigns from Airbnb and Netflix. 2 times in the scene
Brand Design Tips From Linear Founder Karri Saarinen · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:30 Aaron Epstein So you were the first designer at Coinbase and you were a lead designer at Airbnb before ultimately starting Linear as co-founder and CEO.
Chelsea Finn: Building Robots That Can Do Anything · Y Combinator
- ▶ 21:33 Chelsea Finn So we rented, uh, three Airbnbs that, uh, we had never been to before.
How to Spend Your 20s in the AI Era · Y Combinator
- ▶ 35:08 Harj Taggar Being niche at the start has actually always been, like, the recipe to succeed, but even in the YC world, like, the current biggest company by market cap is Airbnb, um, and Airbnb was, like, the definition of niche when it started. 2 times in the scene
How To Build A Truly Abundant Future · Y Combinator
How To Build The Future: Parker Conrad · Y Combinator
- ▶ 18:14 Parker Conrad You know, there's always that Airbnb story, but most of the time that's not what happens.
Building A $2 Billion SaaS Company: Lessons From A Two Time Founder · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:39 Dalton Caldwell I'm here with my friend Rajul, the founder of Zip, and we're going to talk today about what he's learned as a two-time founder, as well as employee of Airbnb, as well as visiting partner at Y Combinator.
- ▶ 2:46 Rujul Zaparde And he's like, hey, you know, have you heard of this thing, uh, it's called Airbnb?
- ▶ 9:52 Dalton Caldwell So you ended up, I think, selling the company, and then I think you ended up joining Airbnb as an employee. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:30 Rujul Zaparde So I worked early on, on the experiences team, which is where I met my co-founder Lou. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:04 Dalton Caldwell PG turned, uh, he coined the phrase founder mode, but you were there, and again, you worked at Airbnb in the years where they were growing so fast. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:58 Dalton Caldwell Um, that was after you left Airbnb.
- ▶ 15:55 Rujul Zaparde You know, we were gonna be much more thoughtful about it, and, and I had spent a lot of time, uh, working with Lou, and getting to know Lou, uh, when my co-founder, when we were at Airbnb, um, uh, he was my engineering counterpart at the… 3 times in the scene
The 10 Trillion Parameter AI Model With 300 IQ · Y Combinator
Why Design Matters: Lessons from Stripe, Lyft and Airbnb · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:17 Aaron Epstein Katie has led design teams at some of the most successful companies in Silicon Valley, like Lyft, Airbnb, and now Stripe.
- ▶ 1:45 Aaron Epstein Everybody watching this will probably be familiar with Stripe and Lyft and Airbnb and, you know, a number of other companies that you've worked at, um, and they're also known for having great design and a great user experience. 4 times in the scene
How Do Billion Dollar Startups Start? · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:00 unnamed speaker Every founder looks at Airbnb and just imagines Airbnb in the early days must have been something special, and actually they kind of all look the same. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:38 unnamed speaker And every founder looks at Airbnb and just imagines Airbnb in the early days must've been 2 times in the scene
Stripe Head of Design Katie Dill Reviews Startup Websites · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:27 Aaron Epstein Katie is the head of design at Stripe, and before that was head of design at Lyft, and head of experience design at, ah, Airbnb.
Why Startup Founders Should Launch Companies Sooner Than They Think · Y Combinator
Startup Experts Discuss Doing Things That Don't Scale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:42 unnamed speaker Next Harj and Pete talk about the Airbnb founders and what they did to inspire Paul Graham's essay. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:35 Harj Taggar And I feel like this is partly why we push the companies to have such big growth targets is one way investors tell apart what's a consultancy or a small business from like a startup that could be Stripe or Airbnb one day is like, can it…
Consumer Startup Metrics | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:03 Tom Blomfield With consumer, it's often a little harder, especially when they're not a subscriber, but they just periodically use your product like Airbnb. 4 times in the scene
B2B Startup Metrics | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:45 Tom Blomfield Brian from Airbnb still hosts Airbnb users in his home. 2 times in the scene
How To Build A Tech Startup With No Technical Skills · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:45 Dalton Caldwell But I think if you just look at the facts of the companies we funded, like literally DoorDash or literally Airbnb or any of these folks, they lived and died by their speed of shipping software.
Does Your Startup Need To Be In San Francisco? · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:39 Michael Seibel Uber, Airbnb, DoorDash.
- ▶ 8:45 Dalton Caldwell This is the thing that makes things like Airbnb work, like Uber work, like all the startups.
How to Apply And Succeed at Y Combinator | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 16:34 Dalton Caldwell So say you were an intern at Stripe or Airbnb or a place like that.
How Startup Fundraising Works | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:36 Brad Flora So let's take Airbnb.
The Best Way To Launch Your Startup | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:34 Kat Mignalek Airbnb launched three times before they really started to get users.
- ▶ 8:07 Kat Mignalek So here's the actual description Airbnb used on their YC application. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:24 Kat Mignalek And let's be honest, the term, you know, Uber for X or Airbnb for X has been a bit overused. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:50 Kat Mignalek If you launch and no one pays attention, do what Airbnb did and launch again and again.
How to Get Your First Customers | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:56 Gustaf Alströmer He published this essay about the early days of Airbnb. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:08 Gustaf Alströmer Some other people, I remember being one of those people when I worked at Airbnb, I would love when founders emailed me with new products, and I would be the one signing up for them. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:19 Gustaf Alströmer So, a friend of mine from Airbnb, Lenny Raschitsky, he writes an excellent blog, and he wrote a great blog post about how YC and a bunch of non-YC B to B startups, um, got their sales go to market strategy going.
- ▶ 20:43 Gustaf Alströmer There are, of course, other ways that you can grow as a startup, but the truth that I've learned is that even if you end up with, say, like Airbnb, where the sources of growth is word of mouth, Google search, referrals, 4 times in the scene
Critiquing Startup Websites With Webflow CEO · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:12 Aaron Epstein This makes me think it's something about photos for Airbnbs or rental properties or something.
Startup Business Models and Pricing | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:29 Aaron Epstein There's Airbnb. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:53 Aaron Epstein So you can think of companies like Airbnb. 2 times in the scene
How To Talk To Users | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:16 Gustaf Alströmer Before YC, I was a product leader at Airbnb and actually a YC founder back in 2007.
- ▶ 1:04 Gustaf Alströmer Brian is the co-founder and CEO of Airbnb. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:54 Gustaf Alströmer So let's talk about another Airbnb story. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:30 Gustaf Alströmer So the first one is a LinkedIn message to a CFO who I used to work with at Airbnb. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:18 Gustaf Alströmer Um, it's been a long time since we worked together at Airbnb.
- ▶ 12:03 Gustaf Alströmer Similarly, in early Airbnb, a lot of guests wanted to have the phone numbers of the host, so they can call them. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:45 Gustaf Alströmer We used to do this at Airbnb all the time. 3 times in the scene
Should You Start A Startup? | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:19 Harj Taggar That startup shut down, but he went on to join another YC company you may have heard of, Airbnb, as its first employee. 2 times in the scene
Advantages Of A First-Time Founder · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:55 Harj Taggar But like, you don't want to sound like you're working on some dumb idea, like, air bed and breakfast as an example, right?
Y Combinator Is Back In Person · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:48 Dalton Caldwell Look at when Airbnb was founded.
- ▶ 12:34 Dalton Caldwell Airbnb and Dropbox and all those folks raised back then. 2 times in the scene
Don't Make These Hiring Mistakes · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:12 unnamed speaker It's like, there's just so, like, the majority of startup advice and stories that are out there are from the already successful companies, and so if you look on the surface of, ah, like, let me go look at the about page of Airbnb, ooh,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:59 unnamed speaker But like, if you're not, then the advice is not to, and I, and I get like, if you look at all the top YC companies, yes, they have a lot of employees, but like, and Michael, you've been there, you can see this, like Airbnb, like they… 5 times in the scene
Why Investors Can’t Fix Your Company – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:37 Dalton Caldwell Is pretty different when you were employee number, you know, a hundred or 200 at Airbnb or Google or Facebook than employee number five.
Things That Don't Scale, The Software Edition – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 25:25 Michael Seibel The Airbnb founders taking photos, the DoorDash folks doing deliveries.
Where Do Great Startup Ideas Come From? – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:28 Michael Seibel Airbnb, Coinbase, and Stripe.
- ▶ 1:11 Michael Seibel So let's talk about Airbnb. 10 times in the scene
Diego Saez Gil - How Pachama Uses Tech to Solve Climate Change · Y Combinator
- ▶ 19:22 Gustaf Alströmer So kind of like, like Airbnb, you can go and find every single place around the world, and as a, as a homeowner or landowner, I can figure out what the value of my land is on the carbon markets.
YC SUS: Michael Seibel and Eric Migicovsky discuss How to Launch an MVP · Y Combinator
- ▶ 34:04 Michael Seibel Um, another famous one was Airbnb where customer service was one of the co-founders Joe's cell phone number. 3 times in the scene
Laks Srini on Making Homeownership in Reach with ZeroDown · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:48 Laks Srini Why can't we do zero down mortgages to people in Facebook, Google, Apple, Airbnb?
Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:26 unnamed speaker So I'd be interested in talking about specific examples like Airbnb, like writing a change, but I'm also interested in talking about this as it pertains to your career.
Gustaf Alströmer - Growth for Startups · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:01 Gustaf Alströmer So my background, ah, I learned most of these things I'm going to talk about at Airbnb.
- ▶ 2:33 Gustaf Alströmer It is about the early days of the Airbnb story, and the thing that's really important about this is, as a founder, you need to keep two different skill sets in mind as your company grow.
- ▶ 3:51 Gustaf Alströmer This is the early days of Airbnb. 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:52 Gustaf Alströmer So Airbnb, what is the, the metric represents the value? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:07 Gustaf Alströmer So when I looked at that team, that sort of photo of the Airbnb team, they worked on two things. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:25 Gustaf Alströmer Lyft and Uber and Airbnb are examples of those. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:11 Gustaf Alströmer This is the Airbnb referral product. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:36 Gustaf Alströmer This is the Airbnb search results page. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:16 Gustaf Alströmer This is Airbnb. 4 times in the scene
Adora Cheung - How to Set KPIs and Goals · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:47 Adora Cheung So a good example is Airbnb. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:08 Adora Cheung This is in fact what the Airbnb founders did in the beginning.
Advice on Organizing and Running Growth Teams from Dan Hockenmaier and Gustaf Alströmer · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:09 Craig Cannon And previous to that, you were a director of growth marketing at Thumbtack and Gustav's a partner at YC and also was a product lead for growth at Airbnb.
- ▶ 3:55 Craig Cannon Did you find that true at Airbnb as well? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:45 Gustaf Alströmer Um, we've tried looking at retention, all of those different things, but fundamentally what worked for Airbnb was this great product experience and we just want to make it more available to the world. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:27 Gustaf Alströmer So this is something that, um, I tend, I used to say that like, if you ask any product manager at Airbnb, what's the most useful tool that 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:17 Dan Hockenmaier Um, we, you know, the real world product, the thing we were optimizing for is hires happening in the real world.
- ▶ 26:09 Gustaf Alströmer So what we did at Airbnb was effectively, um, we would have a top line metric, which was bookings. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:58 Gustaf Alströmer I certainly wasn't the buyers of communication software at AMB. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:26 Gustaf Alströmer And if you, I'm not sure if this is good advice for seed funding companies, but if you look at the evolution of the online marketing team at Airbnb, it went from like one or two engineers to when I left, I think we were a 15 or 20…
- ▶ 45:11 Craig Cannon So related to this, uh, Tony asks about Airbnb. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:52 Gustaf Alströmer There is this, like, pretty expected ways that people will discover a product like Airbnb, and we just made sure we optimized them like crazy.
- ▶ 49:34 Gustaf Alströmer We, um, when we grew Airbnb, we actually divided international growth into two different buckets.
- ▶ 53:28 Gustaf Alströmer But, but, um, I, I, I often see YC companies sort of like taking some of their referrals advice from Airbnb and then coming back and say, actually, that was really meaningful for us and we're going faster.
A CS Education That's Free Until You Get a Job - Austen Allred of Lambda School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 56:28 Austen Allred Um, I, I mean, I look at some of the classic companies like, you know, look at the YC companies, the Airbnbs, the Stripe.
Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:10 Dalton Caldwell Like Reddit, like Dropbox, Airbnb.
- ▶ 17:39 Craig Cannon Like when you think about Airbnb, you're like, oh, I could see myself doing that.
What Shutting Down Your Startup Feels Like - Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy with Kat Manalac · Y Combinator
- ▶ 43:16 Avni Patel Thompson And I mean, I think it's also, it's also narrative on, you know, how we think about, I mean, because, but a lot of other folks did try their first thing, the Airbnb and Amazon and Apple, right?
Starting a Startup After Business School - Reham Fagiri and Kalam Dennis of AptDeco · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:03 Kalam Dennis We, you know, come from very traditional business background, but we were like, you know, we took a lot of inspiration from Airbnb and other companies. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:59 Reham Fagiri It's kind of like, like if you use the Airbnb, uh, example, like building hotels versus making everybody's apartment a hotel.
- ▶ 43:59 unnamed speaker So yeah, if you took the Airbnb advice and you're like, this was a huge growth thing for Airbnb. 2 times in the scene
Brian Donohue on Operating Instapaper Through an Acquisition · Y Combinator
- ▶ 58:03 Brian Donohue And so if you're Airbnb, your growth hack is posting to Craigslist.
A Conversation with Elad Gil · Y Combinator
- ▶ 34:54 Geoff Ralston Airbnb, especially.
- ▶ 44:32 unnamed speaker So how did you evaluate an obvious market like Airbnb back in, how did you, you know, evaluate that market opportunity when it wasn't obvious? 4 times in the scene
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