Joe Gebbia

We're a community-driven brand, but at the same time, we want every host in every home to recognize that they're all individuals,…

— Joe Gebbia

Airbnb was born out of necessarity. Our rent went up. It was born out of a problem.

— Joe Gebbia

There's no reason any company should be limited by its physical environment.

— Joe Gebbia

We expect Seoul to be one of our most important markets not only in Asia but around the world.

— Joe Gebbia

What we're doing with Airbnb feels like the nexus of everything that is right. We're helping people be more resourceful with the…

— Joe Gebbia

When the car was introduced in 1908, people could experience a brand new way to travel that was more efficient than a…

— Joe Gebbia

When we go city by city, country by country, the majority of our hosts, our owners, are simply renting out their spare…

— Joe Gebbia

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…

— Joe Gebbia

The fear of mistakes is the fast track to irrelevance.

— Joe Gebbia

Starting a company in San Francisco when we did usually meant it was destined to be a data-driven tech company. But that…

— Joe Gebbia

In the post-war United States, you had this race to the suburbs. Cities shrank, the suburbs got bigger - and the notion…

— Joe Gebbia

Scheduled shipping is one of many inventions that has made New York a global capital of innovation and creativity - from Willis…

— Joe Gebbia

I often stay in Tokyo's Daikanyama neighbourhood. You can go for a peaceful morning run along the Meguro river, and it is…

— Joe Gebbia

Ultimately, the power of the Airbnb platform is that it motivates guests to blend into communities, belong anywhere, and live like locals.

— Joe Gebbia

As our company has grown, how we configure and design our offices has been a crucial part of how we foster connection…

— Joe Gebbia

What people demand is what the policies serve.

— Joe Gebbia

Bringing words to life, storyboards show you things that words can't.

— Joe Gebbia

For me, one of my personal inspirations was designers in the mid-20th century named Charles and Ray Eames.

— Joe Gebbia

I have the privilege of working with our in-house design studio, called Samara, and our humanitarian team, called Human. Samara is thinking…

— Joe Gebbia

As with any new and innovative industry, entrenched interests - particularly the hotel industry - have attempted to squash the home-sharing movement.

— Joe Gebbia

Any time there is a new idea, it can take some time for policy to catch up to it.

— Joe Gebbia

Design can overcome our most deeply rooted stranger-danger bias.

— Joe Gebbia

For an international business such as ours, you can't localise without a local. That was a hard lesson for us. We had…

— Joe Gebbia

Design is an expression of one's most deeply rooted internal values.

— Joe Gebbia

I feel triumphant when our moms can use Airbnb without their technically inclined kids.

— Joe Gebbia