Our "overnight" success took 1,000 days.

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. We are all natural entrepreneurs, and being manacled to a desk job is not for us.

What I've been surprised by is not how different people are, but how similar they are. There are certain types of Airbnb people, and they are in every city in the world - it's just that in some cultures, there is more of a generational divide.

If you want to create a great product, just focus on one person. Make that one person have the most amazing experience ever.

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.

Designers + artists see potential in things where others do not. I think artists in many ways are the original entrepreneurs.