Airbnb Quotes:

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.

- Brian Chesky

topic: Sleep, Home, Ebay, Airbnb

AirBnB happened because Brian Chesky couldn't pay his rent, but did have some space.

- Sam Altman

topic: Space, Pay, Brian, Airbnb

What I've been surprised by is not how different people are, but how similar they are. There are certain types of Airbnb people, and they are in every city in the world - it's just that in some cultures, there is more of a generational divide.

- Brian Chesky

topic: Cities, People, Different, Cities In The World, Airbnb

When I look at founders and CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook and Brian Chesky at Airbnb and Sebastian Thrun at Udacity, these are companies that are creating extraordinary social good and extraordinary economic and educational empowerment, all within with context of a for-profit model.

- Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

topic: Educational, Zuckerberg, Creating, Social Good, Airbnb

I believe that everyone has expertise to sell and that people want to purchase that knowledge in a convenient way. Just as Airbnb made people realize that an extra room in their home or apartment can be a source of income, the new Learning Annex provides a platform for people to monetize their knowledge. It’s an exciting time for online adult education and our new platform is the way to unify an otherwise fragmented market.

- Bill Zanker

topic: Believe, Home, People, Fragmented, Adult Education

In June 2010, I moved out of my apartment and I have been mostly homeless ever since, off and on. I just live in Airbnb apartments and I check in every week in different homes in San Francisco.

- Brian Chesky

topic: Home, San Francisco, June, Airbnb

When you think about Uber and Airbnb and the other companies that are turning things upside down, Uber isn't big 'cause they ran a lot of ads. They're big because someone took out their iPhone and said to their friend, watch this, and pressed a button and a car pulled up.

- Seth Godin

source: "What Makes An Idea Go Viral?". "TED Radio Hour" Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

topic: Thinking, Iphone, Uber, Airbnb, Things Upside Down

Hundreds of these companies I've seen since the beginning stages - including Dropbox and Airbnb - one of them has actually been crushed by an incumbent. The Googles, the Twitters, the Facebooks, they might be someone to acquire you, which is not necessarily a bad position to be in.

- Alexis Ohanian

source: Source: www.fool.com

topic: Google, Might, Stage, Incumbents, Airbnb

AirBnB spent 5 months interviewing their first employee, before they hired someone and in their first year, they only hired 2 people.

- Sam Altman

topic: Team, Years, People, Airbnb

Breakthrough ideas look crazy, nuts. It’s hard to think this way — I see it in other people’s body language, and I can feel it in my own, where I sometimes feel like I don’t even care if it’s going to work, I can’t take more change. O.K., Google, O.K., Twitter—but Airbnb? People staying in each other’s houses without there being a lot of axe murders?

- Marc Andreessen

topic: Crazy, Thinking, Nuts, Airbnb

Most of the big breakthrough technologies/companies seem crazy at first: PCs, the internet, Bitcoin, Airbnb, Uber, 140 characters.. It has to be a radical product. It has to be something where, when people look at it, at first they say, ‘I don’t get it, I don’t understand it. I think it’s too weird, I think it’s too unusual.’

- Marc Andreessen

topic: Crazy, Character, Technology, Uber, 140 Character