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Don't listen to your parents.
Our "overnight" success took 1,000 days.
Our culture is the foundation for our company.
Do things that won't scale; it will teach you.
My life is longer because of the journeys I have taken.
Repetition doesn't create memories. New experiences do.
Belonging has always been a fundamental driver of humankind.
Culture is simply a shared way of doing something with passion.
Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.
Never assume you can't do something. Push yourself to redefine the boundaries.
It's better to have 100 people love you than to have 1,000,000 people like you.
In June, 2010, I moved out of my apartment and I have been mostly homeless ever since.
Our perception of time is really driven by our perception of the unfamiliar, vivid, and new.
Our shared vision of belonging is the thread that weaves through every touchpoint on Airbnb.
When we started Airbnb, I had no idea about the people we would meet or the friendships I would make.
I think the key that makes Airbnb is the fact that we're a community, not just a series of commodities.
The stuff that matters in life is no longer stuff. It's other people. It's relationships. It's experience.
A company's culture is the foundation for future innovation. An entrepreneurs job is to build the foundation
I had to learn to get comfortable in a role of ambiguity where I had to seek out advisers and learn quickly.
We start with the perfect experience and then work backward. That's how we're going to continue to be successful.
Travel is a new experience that can transport you out of your everyday routine to create memories with the ones you love.
In organizations (or even in a society) where culture is weak, you need an abundance of heavy, precise rules and processes.
If you want to create a great product, just focus on one person. Make that one person have the most amazing experience ever.
Designers + artists see potential in things where others do not. I think artists in many ways are the original entrepreneurs.
Everyone's got a moment or two in their life where something happens and you make a decision and then your entire life changes.
Brand is really the connection between you and your customersif you have a very strong culture, then the brand will come through.
Culture is so incredibly important because it is the foundation for all future innovation. People with passion can change the world.
I think I've always been pretty shameless about seeking out people much smarter and much more experienced than me from the very beginning.
The culture is what creates the foundation for all future innovation. If you break the culture, you break the machine that creates your products.
No matter how certain I am about some culture or some group of people, my opinions are only as accurate as the amount of time I've spent with them.
[On culture] It's living the core values when you hire; when you write an email; when you are working on a project; when you are walking in the hall.
People went to Dell for the computers, but they go to Apple for everything… That’s the difference between a transactional company and a transformational one.
There's no such thing as a good or bad culture, it's either a strong or weak culture. And a good culture for somebody else may not be a good culture for you.
Unless you have fixed costs, you don't need any capital to create a prototype. Ideally, your co-founders, with sweat equity, can create the product themselves.
Companies that hire employees..that are deeply passionate create companies that customers are really really passionate about, and those are the companies that have strong brands.
CEOs are often chief product officers. But for me to say I'm a chief product officer when my product is a community, I really should be thinking of myself as head of this community.
Culture is a thousand things, a thousand times. It's living the core values when you hire; when you write an email; when you are working on a project; when you are walking in the hall.
The second thing I had to do was not to be reluctant as a leader...And when I started doing that, I realized that people are thriving from this, and that it's so much more helpful for people.
Having a clear mission and making sure you know that mission and making sure that mission comes through the company is probably the most important thing you can do for both culture and values.
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.
Whatever career you're in, assume it's going to be a massive failure. That way, you're not making decisions based on success, money and career. You're only making it based on doing what you love.
People don't use Airbnb overtly to trust people more. They use it because they want to get a better sense of the culture and to save money. A by-product was that they live in someone else's shoes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The stronger the culture, the less corporate process a company needs. When the culture is strong, you can trust everyone to do the right thing. People can be independent and autonomous. They can be entrepreneurial.
Think of the imagination as a giant stone from which we carve out new ideas. As we chip away, our new ideas become more polished and refined. But if you start by editing your imagination, you start with a tiny stone.
As children, we have vivid imaginations. We stay up late waiting for Santa Claus, dream of becoming president, and have ideas that defy physics. Then something happens. As we grow older, we start editing our imagination.
Customers are willing to try new things, and if you can survive, you will have fewer competitors. It's like entering the eye of the storm. As long as you are strong enough to survive, you can end up in still water by yourself.