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▶ 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…

▶ 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

▶ 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

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

▶ 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

▶ 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.

▶ 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

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

▶ 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.

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