brianchesky

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by brianchesky 9y ago
Augusto lived with us in the original Airbnb house for a while (apt below us). He even joined our company kickball games when we had 10 employees.
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by brianchesky 10y ago
One evening in early 2008, I got the opportunity to meet Michael at an Austin hotel during SXSW. I pitched him on the idea for Airbnb, and he took us under his wing. For the rest of the year, we would visit his office every Friday night for
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by brianchesky 11y ago
This was not a "company town" in the way that is being referenced in the comments. It was quite literally a prototype community where residents would only live for about a year. It was primarily funded by other companies to showca
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by brianchesky 13y ago
Congrats Sam! Starting with even before we joined Y Combinator in the summer of 2008, you were always a very important advisor to us. I remember when we were first trying to raise money, no investor would talk to us. In our fundraising deck
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by brianchesky 13y ago
In this case the guest was, and always would be, offered a full refund when a host cancels. Unless you are referring to something else...?
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by brianchesky 13y ago
two different guests.
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by brianchesky 13y ago
This is a very good insight. Thanks for the suggestion. You are definitely right here. In the past during events (e.g. SXSW), we have actually booked Airbnb's ourselves, and some hotel rooms, just in case a guest got canceled on last m
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by brianchesky 13y ago
I am sorry you did not get better support from Airbnb. That is a bad experience. You can email me at brian.chesky@airbnb.com if you would like to elaborate further.
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by brianchesky 13y ago
hey everyone, I have looked into this and a few things are going on here. (1) Turns out there was a bug in our system where a guest was actually allowed to double-book this host's listing, so this was our fault. The host did not cancel
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by brianchesky 13y ago
Here is the link so you don't have to go back to the story: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/02/airb...
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by brianchesky 13y ago
I am not aware of any factual misrepresentations, but I am working my way through some of the comments.
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by brianchesky 13y ago
There isn't actually evidence that this occurs that I am aware of.
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by brianchesky 13y ago
You are correct that there are some hosts that list multiple properties, thus skewing the listing breakdown. It depends on the city. In most cities, room nights and revenue for "primary dwellings," meaning the homes people live in
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by brianchesky 13y ago
Hey, this is not actually what we are saying. Here is what we are saying. The vast majority of people in these cities (~85-90%) are renting the homes that they live in (also know as their primary dwelling) - either a living room, bedroom, o
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by brianchesky 13y ago
You're right; we should have linked to it. I'm changing that now.
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by brianchesky 13y ago
He was certainly an impetus for stronger action from what I can tell, but that's an overstatement. The 2010 bill was originally drafted to target property groups that predate Airbnb or him.
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by brianchesky 13y ago
This is not correct, and Liz Krueger knows it since we showed her the specific demographics of who uses our site in NY. Greater than 90% of hosts are renting the home they live in when they are not there (primary dwelling). Simply type NYC
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by brianchesky 14y ago
I know. Train has left. Inspiration for a new startup perhaps?
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by brianchesky 14y ago
We originally wanted to work in our apartment forever. We figured we could fit 100 people in 5 apartment units in our building. Assuming we would need to scale beyond that, Joe and I talked about renting every home on the street. Imagine pr
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by brianchesky 14y ago
Our customer support team is primarily home-shored, and works around the world in over 15 countries - less than 5% is in SF. The majority of people will be product, design, engineering... plus marketing, bd, operations, G&A, etc.
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by brianchesky 15y ago
When I worked as an industrial design, we had a similar person on staff that sat at the intersection of design and engineering - we call this person a design engineer. We have this role at Airbnb.
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Airbnb Launches Sublets(thenextweb.com)
19 points by brianchesky 15y ago|1 comments
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by brianchesky 15y ago
:(
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by brianchesky 15y ago
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/techchron/detail?entry_i...
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by brianchesky 15y ago
we are covering all incidents retroactively, including EJ's and Troy's.
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by brianchesky 15y ago
we are standing by, and we just contacted her again telling her that we will do whatever we can to help.
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by brianchesky 15y ago
Brian Chesky (Airbnb CEO) here. My heart goes out to our host. My co-founder has contacted her multiple times, as recently as last night, and we have again offered to help her in any way that she needs. We will continue to make ourselves av
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by brianchesky 15y ago
Hey everyone - we were shocked when we heard about this unsettling event. We have been working closely with the authorities, and we want to reassure our community that, with the help of our security infrastructure, we were able to assist th
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by brianchesky 15y ago
We have in fact contacted him.
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by brianchesky 16y ago
We were already meeting our users over the previous year, including at the DNC and Inauguration. We had ambivalence to continue to do so city-by-city because, as we were warned by others, it didn't scale. PG gave us permission to continue t

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