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Creating the future means having a global vision and an extreme focus on the approachability of what we're creating.
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As Chief Product Officer, I lead our product team to create simple, intuitive user experiences.
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When the car was introduced in 1908, people could experience a brand new way to travel that was more efficient than a horse and buggy. Can you believe that cities tried to outlaw cars in the United States? Can you imagine driving a car for a year then having to go back to a horse and buggy?
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When we go city by city, country by country, the majority of our hosts, our owners, are simply renting out their spare bedroom.
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There's this misconception globally that the platform is about property groups and big property owners renting out entire buildings full-time.
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How do you convince somebody to host a stranger for the weekend? That's not a trivial thing. It's not something I think you can throw technology at, marketing at, or sales at. We threw design at it because that's all we knew, and in doing so, I feel like we brought a human touch to it, which is so needed.
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In the future, we will see living experiences curated around a shared lifestyle.
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The question that I can't shake - it's this question that keeps coming up for me - is What does the shared home of the future look like? People are sharing homes at a rate that no one ever predicted, but residences and homes weren't designed for it. They were designed around ideas of privacy and separation.
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In general, we believe in regulation - just as long as it is fair and balanced.
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We've invented a new marketplace. There was no easy way to rent a person's bedroom over the Internet or book a vacation rental over the Internet. There was no guidebook for us to turn to as we defined this new marketplace.
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We encourage employees to ship new features on day one, which immediately encourages them to come up with something creative and different.
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Of course Airbnb made mistakes the first year! Some came from our own preconceptions. When we started, we designed our interface for ourselves, Internet-savvy twentysomethings. We never considered the role of good eyesight in our interface - font size, vernacular; it all matters.
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Cities are a melting pot for different ideas, and diversity brings a high-energy rhythm that I don't think we'd know was gone until it was too late.
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When it comes to technology and the home, I really don't want to see any of it.
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Every apartment I've ever lived in has had a space to make, create, and get stuff done within eyesight of my bed.
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For me, one of my personal inspirations was designers in the mid-20th century named Charles and Ray Eames.
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I have the privilege of working with our in-house design studio, called Samara, and our humanitarian team, called Human. Samara is thinking about the future of Airbnb, and Human is working on ways to leverage our platform outside the cause of day-to-day business.
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I think Pixar's done an amazing job integrating art and science. They really get this idea that art and engineering work side by side.
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To me, 'design thinking' is another way of saying empathize with the customer. It's consideration for the person you're designing for.
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Staying at Airbnb listings gives me the opportunity to truly understand and experience the local culture of the countries I visit.
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We expect Seoul to be one of our most important markets not only in Asia but around the world.
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Airbnb was born out of necessarity. Our rent went up. It was born out of a problem.
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Any time there is a new idea, it can take some time for policy to catch up to it.
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I've experienced firsthand the disconnect between furniture, their environments, and the way people work.
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In art school, you learn that design is much more than the look and feel of something - it's the whole experience.
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We started Airbnb because, like many across the U.S. and in New York, we were struggling to pay our rent and decided to open up our living room to fellow artists coming to town for a design conference. Sharing our apartment allowed us to stay in our home and start our company.
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By helping New Yorkers turn their greatest expense - their home - into an asset, Airbnb is a vehicle that artists, entrepreneurs, and innovators can use to earn extra money to pursue their passion.
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Given Miami's unique role in Airbnb's roots, I'm particularly proud of how South Floridians have embraced home sharing as an opportunity to earn supplemental income and catalyze economic development in their communities.
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After World War II, communities and the trust they fostered began to erode in the United States. We moved away from dense city centers to fenced in suburban lots separated by broad highways.
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Starting a company in San Francisco when we did usually meant it was destined to be a data-driven tech company. But that didn't seem to fully encompass what we wanted with Airbnb. When we tried looking through a tech lens, it didn't work. The humanity was missing.
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To be truly empathetic, we have to acknowledge that we're all human, we're all flawed, and that life can be difficult.
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While the Cold War had us questioning our next-door neighbors, big brands emerged to capture our trust. We became consumers.
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Airbnb has grown thanks to our hosts creating memorable experiences and inspiring their guests to be hosts in their hometowns.
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We built a basic website, and Air Bed and Breakfast was born. Three lucky guests got to stay on a $20 airbed on the hardwood floor. But they loved it. And so did we. We took them on adventures around the city.
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We do believe in an inside-out culture. If we hold our hosts and guests to an expectation of acceptance and belonging, it has to start within our company. Otherwise, how on earth do we have the credibility to hold them accountable if we're not doing it to ourselves?
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