You kinda dream the next step, but maybe the bigger lesson is we started by renting air beds in living rooms but what we were doing was always the same thing: We were offering great experiences to people when they traveled. So it’s like “I dream of having my own company and maybe we’ll even have two or three employees” and you get that.
Your dreams are usually the next step in front of you. You don’t go from there to 200 million people and you don’t usually dream of that. This company started because we rented our three-bedroom apartment one weekend. Why do you think you’ve always felt the need to grow the business into other services?Ī: We have nearly 200 million people in the community. While the main idea of a bed and breakfast is still the company’s mainstay, it’s expanded into Trips. Q: Even from the start, your vision (along with your co-founders) for Airbnb’s future was fluid. They’ll never forget how they feel today even if they don’t remember what was said and I think that feeling of possibility is something I can contribute to. It was a feeling of possibility and no one will ever forget that. But I do think that you don’t remember all the words but I remember the feeling I had. So I’m going to tell them 10 things and then somebody will remember one of them. So then I thought “Will the students remember anything I say?” And they might not. As I was writing the speech, I was remembering the person who spoke at my graduation and I thought deeply about it and what I remember from that speech is nothing. Q: Do you remember your own graduation night at Proctors?Ī: Well, the funniest memory is a lack of memory. So I’m going to mention to them this thought: I’m old enough that they should listen to me but not so old that I’m their parents’ age, in which case they definitely won’t listen to me. When these students were born, I was graduating, and so it’s the midway. For your high school though, it brings back all sorts of memories. If a random company asked me to go speak to them and I had no point of reference it wouldn’t be odd. What makes it weird is I remember being just a regular student. A: Yeah, I don’t think you ever expect that.
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