47 min

A Dream, Disruption, and Airbnb’s Greatest Challenges with Brian Chesky The Martha Stewart Podcast

    • Personal Journals

Since Brian Chesky and his then-roommate rented out three air mattresses in their apartment in 2007, he’s been on a wild ride building Airbnb. What are the biggest challenges of building an $80-billon dollar business and disrupting the hospitality industry in the process? How do you convince people to open up their homes to strangers? What happens when the pandemic stops your breakneck growth - on a dime? Learn all of this, and more, in this engaging conversation between two passionate entrepreneurs. 
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Since Brian Chesky and his then-roommate rented out three air mattresses in their apartment in 2007, he’s been on a wild ride building Airbnb. What are the biggest challenges of building an $80-billon dollar business and disrupting the hospitality industry in the process? How do you convince people to open up their homes to strangers? What happens when the pandemic stops your breakneck growth - on a dime? Learn all of this, and more, in this engaging conversation between two passionate entrepreneurs. 
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

47 min

  • 2024 iHeartMedia, Inc. © Any use of this intellectual property for text and data mining or computational analysis including as training material for artificial intelligence systems is strictly prohibited without express written consent from iHeartMedia