I had to learn to get comfortable in a role of ambiguity where I had to seek out advisers and learn quickly.

The stuff that matters in life is no longer stuff. It's other people. It's relationships. It's experience.

Culture is so incredibly important because it is the foundation for all future innovation. People with passion can change the world.

Our "overnight" success took 1,000 days.

I'm not saying the whole world will work this way, but with Airbnb, people are sleeping in other people's homes and other people's beds. So there's a level of trust necessary to participate that's different from an eBay or Facebook.

The American dream, what we were taught was, grow up, own a car, own a house. I think that dream's completely changing. We were taught to keep up with the Joneses. Now we're sharing with the Joneses.

Do things that won't scale; it will teach you.