Top 87 Quotes & Sayings by Joe Gebbia - Page 2

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

Airbnb is about travel.

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 until it was too late.

Of course Airbnb made mistakes the first year! Some came from our own preconceptions. When we started, we designed our interface for ourselves, Internet-savvy twentysomethings. We never considered the role of good eyesight in our interface - font size, vernacular; it all matters.

What people demand is what the policies serve.

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

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

When the car was introduced in 1908, people could experience a brand new way to travel that was more efficient than a horse and buggy. Can you believe that cities tried to outlaw cars in the United States? Can you imagine driving a car for a year then having to go back to a horse and buggy?

The question that I can't shake - it's this question that keeps coming up for me - is What does the shared home of the future look like? People are sharing homes at a rate that no one ever predicted, but residences and homes weren't designed for it. They were designed around ideas of privacy and separation.

It's about more than making money; it's about connecting people in countries all around the world. Our social mission is to get people meeting each other, and we need people who align with that purpose.

Starting a company in San Francisco when we did usually meant it was destined to be a data-driven tech company. But that didn't seem to fully encompass what we wanted with Airbnb. When we tried looking through a tech lens, it didn't work. The humanity was missing.

In a lot of ways, the real learning at RISD happened after-hours when you're working side by side with your colleagues.

I often stay in Tokyo's Daikanyama neighbourhood. You can go for a peaceful morning run along the Meguro river, and it is particularly incredible during cherry blossom season.

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

Since the very beginning, we wanted to create an experience for our guests: more than just a place to sleep. We wanted to cook breakfast in the morning; we wanted to provide a subway map for our guests. Pick them up from the airport.

How do you convince somebody to host a stranger for the weekend? That's not a trivial thing. It's not something I think you can throw technology at, marketing at, or sales at. We threw design at it because that's all we knew, and in doing so, I feel like we brought a human touch to it, which is so needed.

Everything at Airbnb is a continuation of what it's like to be a guest in somebody's house. We think about how each stage makes people feel.

The fear of mistakes is the fast track to irrelevance.

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

Design has always been a driving force in my life: it's the lens through which I experience the world.

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

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

You must have the ability to recognize good design and good user experience. These are core things at Airbnb. It doesn't matter which department you're in.

We hire people who are smarter than us.

There's this misconception globally that the platform is about property groups and big property owners renting out entire buildings full-time.

You have to know what your users are experiencing.

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