![]() “Our overnight success took 1,000 days.” – Brian Chesky “In the year 2008, we made $5K from our website and we made $40K selling breakfast cereal.” – Brian Chesky “AirBnB launched and a year after we launched, I think we had 100 people/day visiting our website and we had like 2 bookings.” – Brian Chesky And Michael Seibel says, ‘There are these people called angels, and they’ll give you money.’ The first thing I thought is, ‘I can’t believe this guy believes in angels.’ That’s how naive I was.” – Brian Chesky “In summer of 2008, I meet a guy named Michael Seibel. It was meant to be the thing that paid the rent so we could think of the big idea.” – Brian Chesky “AirBnB was never meant to be the big idea. “My life is longer because of the journeys I have taken.” – Brian Chesky “Everyone’s got a moment or two in their life where something happens and you make a decision and then your entire life changes.” – Brian Chesky We are all natural entrepreneurs, and being manacled to a desk job is not for us.” – Brian Chesky “Every day I would wake up and think, ‘Today is another missed opportunity to do something important.’ After enough days like this, you start feeling like you are getting old, even when you are relatively young. “Travel is a new experience that can transport you out of your everyday routine to create memories with the ones you love.” – Brian Chesky “The stuff that matters in life is no longer stuff. ![]() And it’s ironic that the people who travel the least have the strongest opinions about the people they’ve never met.” – Brian Chesky “The people with the passports, the people who travel more, tend to be the most understanding. “Our perception of time is really driven by our perception of the unfamiliar, vivid, and new.” – Brian Chesky “Belonging has always been a fundamental driver of humankind.” – Brian Chesky Now we’re sharing with the Joneses.” – Brian Chesky We were taught to keep up with the Joneses. I think that dream’s completely changing. “The American dream, what we were taught was, grow up, own a car, own a house. I just live in Airbnb apartments and I check in every week in different homes in San Francisco.” – Brian Chesky “In June 2010, I moved out of my apartment and I have been mostly homeless ever since, off and on. But if you start by editing your imagination, you start with a tiny stone.” – Brian Chesky As we chip away, our new ideas become more polished and refined. “Think of the imagination as a giant stone from which we carve out new ideas. As we grow older, we start editing our imagination.” – Brian Chesky We stay up late waiting for Santa Claus, dream of becoming president, and have ideas that defy physics. “As children, we have vivid imaginations. “I think we go through our lives limiting our potential, and when times are tough, it’s easy to convince ourselves that something isn’t possible, but if you start there, then you limit yourself and the possibilities of what you can create.” – Brian Chesky Push yourself to redefine the boundaries.” – Brian Chesky
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