87 Quotes by Joe Gebbia

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    For an international business such as ours, you can't localise without a local. That was a hard lesson for us. We had to be closer, physically present, which is when we put teams on the ground.

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    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.

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

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

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

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

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

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    We have seen things in the twentieth century like the ATM machine, the VCR, and even the car. The electric car was invented in 1920, and here we, 100 years later, it is only now becoming an actual thing. So it doesn't surprise me that new ideas are met with a lot of questions.

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    My role is to think about what the future could be for Airbnb - and that includes crafting an effortless and easy-to-use service on any platform, whether mobile, tablet, or Web.

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