American - Businessman | August 29, 1981 -
I think the key that makes Airbnb is the fact that we're a community, not just a series of commodities.
Brian Chesky
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My life is longer because of the journeys I have taken.
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I think I've always been pretty shameless about seeking out people much smarter and much more experienced than me from the very beginning.
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The stuff that matters in life is no longer stuff. It's other people. It's relationships. It's experience.
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Every day I would wake up and think, 'Today is another missed opportunity to do something important.' After enough days like this, you start feeling like you are getting old, even when you are relatively young. We are all natural entrepreneurs, and being manacled to a desk job is not for us.
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If you want to create a great product, just focus on one person. Make that one person have the most amazing experience ever.
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Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.
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The American dream, what we were taught was, grow up, own a car, own a house. I think that dream's completely changing. We were taught to keep up with the Joneses. Now we're sharing with the Joneses.
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I think the next big thing in music, and it's kind of because I come from the tech industry, is actually, I think it's the platform... Spotify is incredibly interesting. I think the platform is becoming the star.
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The office is the laboratory and meeting your users is like going into the field. You can't just stay in the lab. And it's not just asking users what they want, it's about seeing what they're doing.
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The people with the passports, the people who travel more, tend to be the most understanding. And it's ironic that the people who travel the least have the strongest opinions about the people they've never met.
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I'm not saying the whole world will work this way, but with Airbnb, people are sleeping in other people's homes and other people's beds. So there's a level of trust necessary to participate that's different from an eBay or Facebook.
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