Joe Gebbia

Airbnb is about travel.

— Joe Gebbia

We hire people who are smarter than us.

— Joe Gebbia

High reputation beats high similarity.

— Joe Gebbia

I'll never forget my first Art Basel.

— Joe Gebbia

You have to know what your users are experiencing.

— Joe Gebbia

In New York, ingenuity goes hand-in-hand with the hustle to survive.

— Joe Gebbia

The sharing economy is out of the bag - and it's not going to go back in.

— Joe Gebbia

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

— Joe Gebbia

We didn't invent anything new. Hospitality has been around forever.

— Joe Gebbia

In general, we believe in regulation - just as long as it is fair and balanced.

— Joe Gebbia

The fear of mistakes is the fast track to irrelevance.

— Joe Gebbia

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

— Joe Gebbia

Staying at Airbnb listings gives me the opportunity to truly understand and experience the local culture of the countries I visit.

— Joe Gebbia

Creating the future means having a global vision and an extreme focus on the approachability of what we're creating.

— Joe Gebbia

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

— Joe Gebbia

To be truly empathetic, we have to acknowledge that we're all human, we're all flawed, and that life can be difficult.

— 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

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

— Joe Gebbia

Cities are a melting pot for different ideas, and diversity brings a high-energy rhythm that I don't think we'd know was gone…

— Joe Gebbia

To me, 'design thinking' is another way of saying empathize with the customer. It's consideration for the person you're designing for.

— Joe Gebbia

We built a basic website, and Air Bed and Breakfast was born. Three lucky guests got to stay on a $20 airbed…

— Joe Gebbia

How do you convince somebody to host a stranger for the weekend? That's not a trivial thing. It's not something I think…

— 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

We have seen things in the twentieth century like the ATM machine, the VCR, and even the car. The electric car was…

— 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

Of course Airbnb made mistakes the first year! Some came from our own preconceptions. When we started, we designed our interface for…

— Joe Gebbia

It's about more than making money; it's about connecting people in countries all around the world. Our social mission is to get…

— 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

A world-changing vision often necessitates a profound simplicity in the user experience.

— Joe Gebbia

The story of Airbnb is really the underdog story in many ways.

— Joe Gebbia

When trust works out right, it can be absolutely magical.

— Joe Gebbia

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

— Joe Gebbia

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

— Joe Gebbia

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

— Joe Gebbia

What people demand is what the policies serve.

— Joe Gebbia

When it comes to technology and the home, I really don't want to see any of it.

— Joe Gebbia

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

— Joe Gebbia

In the future, we will see living experiences curated around a shared lifestyle.

— Joe Gebbia

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

— Joe Gebbia

What if cities embraced a culture of sharing? I see a future of shared cities that bring us community and connection instead…

— Joe Gebbia