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A Conversation with Elad Gil · Y Combinator Oct 18, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 52:02 Elad Gil Airbnb is a good example where I think that market size was bigger than anybody expected. 2 times in the scene

Fundraising Fundamentals By Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator Oct 10, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 10:28 Geoff Ralston The greatest, best investors are Airbnb before they're Airbnb, before they have traction. 2 times in the scene

PR + Content for Growth by Kat Mañalac and Craig Cannon · Y Combinator Sep 19, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:01 Craig Cannon Uh, SEO, uh, Airbnb made a bunch of city guides, so these are both super useful, they get you on the site, you can hit someone with a Facebook pixel,

Suhail Doshi - How to Measure Your Product · Y Combinator Sep 12, 2018 · 13 mentions

  • ▶ 8:53 Suhail Doshi And the funny thing about this is even if you're like Airbnb and you're thousands and thousands of people,
  • ▶ 17:33 Suhail Doshi A more complex example is like Airbnb, who might have, like, you know, 10 steps or something like that. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 19:25 Suhail Doshi Um, how many people go from a landing page to signing up to doing that valuable thing, like watching a video, doing, in Airbnb's case, it would have been just doing a search. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 38:17 Suhail Doshi Um, but, but that said, like, I don't know what that would be for, um, you know, something like Airbnb where it's like getting to a landing page and then, you know, searching for your first 4 times in the scene

A Conversation with Ooshma Garg - Moderated by Adora Cheung · Y Combinator Sep 8, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 9:49 Ooshma Garg Airbnb was just coming up, Etsy was coming up, and there were all these, like, rental or sharing startups in twenty-ten to twenty-twelve. 2 times in the scene

Peter Reinhardt on Finding Product Market Fit at Segment · Y Combinator Sep 6, 2018 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 19:36 Peter Reinhardt I will say the Airbnb version of product market fit is much more iterative. 6 times in the scene

David Rusenko - How To Find Product Market Fit · Y Combinator Sep 5, 2018 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 12:28 David Rusenko So if you look at sort of what Weebly's done, if you look at what Airbnb's done, if you look at what Dropbox has done, all, all companies have created their own market.
  • ▶ 45:33 David Rusenko Um, you know, I think another probably great example, um, would be either Uber or Airbnb, right? 2 times in the scene

A Conversation with Paul Graham - Moderated by Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator Sep 1, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:28 Geoff Ralston And, you know, getting rich can mean, you know, you have a nice little business where you're the boss, and you have 20 or 50 employees, or it could mean you're Airbnb, right?

Elad Gil Shares Advice from the High Growth Handbook, a Guide to Scaling Startups · Y Combinator Jul 27, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 9:56 Elad Gil And similarly, Airbnb, um, appears to be doing very well in China as well, so I do think it can be done, but most companies try to enter China, they don't have a real strategy to it, they don't understand the, the
  • ▶ 31:43 unnamed speaker PG, they've, they've talked about Airbnb as like cockroaches, like just staying alive.

Jessica Livingston Shares 9 Things She Learned From Founding YC · Y Combinator Jul 11, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:15 Jessica Livingston Um, and by the way, this photo was taken just about the same time that I wrote Airbnb, their first investment check.

Crypto Investors - Linda Xie and Avichal Garg · Y Combinator May 2, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 11:40 Avichal Garg Um, and so I think, and, and I think it would have, it would have been really challenging to predict something like Airbnb. 2 times in the scene

Claire McDonnell and Jennifer Kim on Building an Inclusive Company Culture · Y Combinator Apr 20, 2018 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 0:00 Kat Manalac Okay, so we'll just, like, dive into this, and, um, and I'll start by saying, uh, you know, I've heard many successful founders, founders of later stage companies like Dropbox, Airbnb, say that one of the most important things, uh, that…
  • ▶ 12:13 Jennifer Kim If you're looking at, you know, for example, Airbnb, like, oh my gosh, look at all the culture initiatives they have, like, well, they're so much bigger than you, and 3 times in the scene

Breaking Down HackerRank's Survey of 40,000 Developers with Vivek Ravisankar · Y Combinator Mar 30, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:47 Vivek Ravisankar So if you want to apply to Airbnb, you take an Airbnb's coding challenge. 2 times in the scene

Andy Bromberg - Startup Investor School Day 4 · Y Combinator Mar 9, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 34:52 Andy Bromberg And on top of that, we've got an Airbnb situation here where there's actually abundant unused resources for storing files.

Elad Gil and Pejman Nozad - Startup Investor School Day 3 · Y Combinator Mar 8, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 6:37 Elad Gil Um, Airbnb, Stripe Square, et cetera, um, at different stages. 2 times in the scene

Paul Buchheit - Startup Investor School Day 2 · Y Combinator Mar 7, 2018 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 26:59 Paul Buchheit Alright, so I missed Airbnb. 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 44:37 Paul Buchheit So, so the question is, unlike private equity where you can do months and months of diligence, like, we kind of have to move fast as investors, or as I mentioned, face adverse selection of not funding Airbnb. 2 times in the scene

Dalton Caldwell - Startup Investor School Day 2 · Y Combinator Mar 7, 2018 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 3:11 Geoff Ralston Like, you know, when people come by with really stupid ideas, like, you know, having air beds in a, in someone's home after a conference.
  • ▶ 14:01 Dalton Caldwell The original, uh, Airbnb thing, it'd be very hard to determine what the market of airbeds were, and you would probably say no if you were purely looking at market size.
  • ▶ 19:42 Dalton Caldwell And they're like, wait, you invested in the airbed company? 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 38:49 Dalton Caldwell So one metaphor that I've, I've talked about with a company in the past is in the same way that, um, Uber doesn't actually own any cars, and Airbnb doesn't own any, um, physical property, you're going to be an ISP that doesn't actually own…

Carolynn Levy and Kirsty Nathoo - Startup Investor School Day 1 · Y Combinator Mar 6, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 38:38 Geoff Ralston In the end, whether you invest in a safe, a convertible note, or equity, if you invested in Airbnb at 1015, 20, or thirty million dollars, you'll still have the sort of returns that Dorio saw if you invest seventy million dollars.

The Number One Goal is Getting Started - Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy · Y Combinator Mar 2, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 36:35 Avni Patel Thompson And so I think a lot of those things from like a Lyft or an Uber or an Airbnb, people who completely in what five years.

Uncut Interview with Sam Altman on Masters of Scale [Audio] · Y Combinator Feb 23, 2018 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 29:12 Sam Altman And in many of these cases, Stripe, Dropbox, Airbnb, they took a long time to get the product right, but they were obsessed with that. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 31:52 Sam Altman Um, it's, what that means is, I am lazy and don't want to go get my hands dirty, or I think knocking on doors and taking photos is below me, in the Airbnb guys' case.

Startup Investor School Preview with Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator Feb 7, 2018 · 1 mention

Don't Start a Blog, Start a Cult - Mr. Money Mustache · Y Combinator Sep 27, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:11 Mr. Money Mustache Um, there's a lot of people who live in San Francisco for little to no rent just through special arrangements, like they're friends with somebody who has a space or they're trading services for rent or they own a place and then Airbnb out…

The Challenges a Repeat Founder Faces - Tikhon Bernstam · Y Combinator Sep 8, 2017 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 6:20 Tikhon Bernstam Are bigger than, like, the Series A that Dropbox and Airbnb did with Sequoia, which I think was roughly a mil each.
  • ▶ 29:20 Tikhon Bernstam Like, I mean, nowadays the typical seed round out of YC is higher than like the Series A post money that Sequoia did in Dropbox and an Airbnb.
  • ▶ 35:25 Tikhon Bernstam Um, like if you look at like say Dropbox and Airbnb, they took like over a year to go from Demo Day to their Series A.
  • ▶ 36:49 Tikhon Bernstam Um, and that's very valuable and much like Airbnb, like a lot of people said, like, why do we need Airbnb? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 39:29 Tikhon Bernstam Um, Airbnb, I mean, uh, as Seibel posted, like, 2 times in the scene

The CEO Who Pays Employees to De-Locate From the Bay · Y Combinator Aug 18, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:55 Wade Foster So, um, we do this thing called Airbnb on boarding, which, uh, when we hire folks within the first month, we actually do like to have them spend a week in person out here in the Bay area. 2 times in the scene

IPFS, CoinList, and the Filecoin ICO with Juan Benet and Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator Jul 1, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 47:06 Juan Benet Everyone trusts, uh, Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Airbnb, or whatever.

Scaling Growth | Gustaf Alstromer, YC Partner (formerly Airbnb) & Ed Baker (formerly Uber) · Y Combinator Jun 23, 2017 · 11 mentions

  • ▶ 0:25 Josh Elman Um, Ed joined Uber to start the growth team when it was five people, and then over the three and a half years became kind of VP of, of both product and growth for kind of all of Uber, and Gustav joined, and the Airbnb growth team was him…
  • ▶ 9:02 Josh Elman Well, and, and, and, you know, that's a perfect transition because when I've been talking to a lot of people about sort of what the real success of Uber and Airbnb, I mean, Joe gave a great talk about sort of 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:46 Josh Elman But I think, you know, both Uber and Airbnb, because your businesses people actually pay for, how do you think about paid acquisition differently than this sort of organic acquisition?
  • ▶ 21:31 Ed Baker Um, but as much as possible, we tried to just have a playbook, and, um, you know, one, one thing that's helpful with Uber being a global business, and I'm sure you guys see this as much, if not more so at Airbnb, is, um, when we would…
  • ▶ 32:22 Gustaf Alströmer So, ultimately at Airbnb, 3 times in the scene

From Startup to Scaleup | Sam Altman and Reid Hoffman · Y Combinator May 31, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 31:33 Sam Altman Uh, he used to spend, or still does spend, like, 20 of his 30 nights a month taking key Airbnb employees that don't report him out to dinner.

Later Stage Advice with Sam Altman (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 20) · Y Combinator May 1, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 35:06 Sam Altman One of the Airbnb founders drew this on like a business card or something for another founder that was starting a company and then I saw it once and took a picture of it. 2 times in the scene

Team and Execution with Sam Altman (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 2) · Y Combinator Mar 17, 2017 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 8:44 Sam Altman Um, Airbnb spent five months interviewing their first employee before they hired someone. 9 times in the scene

Office Hours with Sam Altman · Y Combinator Jan 11, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:08 Craig Cannon For example, uh, Evan Spiegel from Snapchat, uh, didn't have a programming background, neither did Brian Chesky at, uh, Airbnb.

Pitch Practice with Paul Buchheit and Sam Altman at Startup School SV 2016 · Y Combinator Dec 26, 2016 · 1 mention

Reham Fagiri and Kalam Dennis at Startup School SV 2016 · Y Combinator Oct 11, 2016 · 1 mention

Jessica Livingston : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator Aug 30, 2016 · 29 mentions

  • ▶ 0:53 Sam Altman Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, the list goes on.
  • ▶ 4:18 Sam Altman Like, could Brian Chesky of Airbnb have told you during YC, here's how we're gonna be a twenty-five billion dollar company, and here's what we're gonna look like seven years later? 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 6:09 Sam Altman Like, you, you said Airbnb came with this idea that turned out to actually be the eBay of space. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:49 Sam Altman Could, could you tell the story of what you thought the first time you met the Airbnb founders when they came in to interview for YC? 19 times in the scene

Q&A with YC at the Female Founders Conference 2016 · Y Combinator May 31, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:33 Kat Manalac I, I, you know, I think about this, like, we don't pretend to know what ideas are going to hit it big, because I'm sure when you met the Airbnb founders, that sounded bananas.

Jessica Livingston at Female Founders Conference 2014 · Y Combinator Mar 12, 2014 · 3 mentions

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