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Brian Chesky on Launching Airbnb and the Challenges of Scale (story of…
Brian Chesky on Launching Airbnb and the Challenges of Scale
story of airbnb
don't have enough money for rent
designer needs a place to stay
met joe and start a business together
create a designer bed and breakfast for the conference (air bed)
contracted year long friendship
book someone's home anywhere
background of brian
Rhode Island school of design (industrial design)
never want to be an entrepreneur
art school
using paypal
reputation
sold 10% stock
Opportunity
sell cereal
obama o's
cap'n mc cain's
Y-combinator
First
created a structure for all of them to work fulltime
second
Paul gave them advice
make 100 people love them
problem&solution
to make ppl talk about them
guest comes without homes
how to do that on travel website
make people write about them
Challenge
Government
Samwer Brothers
Paris
Q&A
How to learn
expert
shameless
co-founder
better or equal
trust，like，admire
how to switch to be an entreprenuer
just start
conviction
next step
passion
difficult
creat a new company in a company
To Build Organizational Culture
Interview employee personally
Trained people to do interview
To meet every single employee
To do weekly orientations to groups of people
To record all the videos and stories
Do the Sunday night e-mail series
Focusing on it and Designing it
To pick just few things to control
Scale
Some Things Learn From Scaling
How to hire people
How to manage them
Making short-term goal
Start to think of long-term plan
Learning at the same time Doing
Being adaptable
Being curious
Being open-minded
Being welcoming to new things
Being adventurous
Existential Thearts
Government relations
Competitors
:warning:Attack from Samwer Brothers
Who ever has best product wins.
founder's novel idea
seven star design
five is not enough
o to o
not just a product
reinvent
employee
hire surrounding yourself with
core value