Achieve La Historia De Airbnb Interpreted By Leigh Gallagher Categorized In Pamphlet

book about how Airbnb got started, The author also delves into the reasons the company is successful as well as a broad discussion of the evolving travel industry.
Recommended reading! What an interesting and inspiring story, Definitely have to recommend this to a few friends, it is very repetitive and not the keast a journalist's work but rather a long fan letter Nothing new.
Absolutely insincere. IPO advertising book. Short version of book: AirBNB is friendly and disruptive, hotel lobby is eval, founders are genius, everybody loves Airbnb, nothing bad should happen.

I don't hate the company, no bad feelings about it, But the book has nothing intereating,
If you'd love to read really engaging story about tech in travel company, read "Truck full of money" about Kayak's founder Paul English Really enjoyable book about an unorthodox company founding story.
I thought it was very inspirational and shows what it takes to make a business so transformational that people also love to work at.
The book starts to run out of steam at the halfway point and it feels very dated being before the Me Too movement and pandemic.
Having just stayed at a Airbnb and running a Airbnb home, I was very curious how the American business model got started.
Interesting book mixed with some dry statistics, Obviously a lot of research went it to it! The three men who started it, Joe Gebbia, Nathan Blecharczyk and Brian Chesky, have changed the travel and hotel business forever.
There's an incredible amount of research gone into this book with plenty of data, statistics, quotes, details of local laws, etc.
Personally I found it all made for a dull story wtih too much minutia, I enjoyed the chapters about people's personal experience of renting out their homes but most were dramatically bad so it made me wonder why people do it.


There was a lot of detail about the company's conflict in big cities like New York where renting out your home, or part if it, seems to be in conflict with many local laws.
I found all the legal stuff very tedious, not helped by the fact I am not a US citizen so the many different laws and regulations meant nothing, nor the politians and local people in government that were quoted.


It took me weeks to read and even then I have skimmed much of it.


With thanks to NetGalley and Penguin Random House UK, Ebury Publishing for a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Last year at this time , we were living in Nicholas's flat, A living room full of books, with Victor Hugo in French, Pencil sketches of cats and horses on the walls, A kitchen and dining room with a polished mahogany table, Even our hard to please three teenage daughters were totally charmed, And this sprawling apartment , next to the Jardin Trocadero, for much less than the price of two Parisian hotel rooms.
Such is the power of the famousletter word in today's holiday and hospitality world Airbnb,

If you, like me, and a million other people world wide, have stayed in an Airbnb apartment , you'd probably want to know how it all began.
Leigh Gallagher's book is a good place to start, Like most people, Id heard the story of how Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia began renting out their livingroom airbed, to make money for rent.
But the details of how this happened and how this venture grew and grew is a Silicon Valley fairy tale I didnt fully know.
Like all fairy tales, this one bears retelling, something Leigh Gallagher, assistant editor at Fortune magazine, does engagingly in this wellresearched book.


Wouldbe entrepreneurs can take heart from all the struggle eating dry leftover cereal for every meal and the scorn from investors the idea of renting out space to strangers was considered weird and unbelievably risky chronicled in this book.
Airbnb went through many iterations, from being a company that insisted hosts supply only airbeds and be there to offer breakfast, to its presentday avatar.
It failed many times, launching and relaunching in different cities, trying to capitalize on the extra demand for hotel rooms during conventions.
Then there were the lucky breaks, most of which came from dogged persistence, like becoming part of the Y Combinator accelerator, a mentoring programme for startups.
This gave the young startup credibility, funding from private equity firm Sequoia, and mentorship, Gallagher tells this story fluently, The first few chapters are eventful and racy, and then the book settles down to a comfortable mix of events and analysis.


Chief executive Chesky is the public face of Airbnb, so its understandable that much of the book focuses on him.
The other two founders, Gebbia and Blecharczyk, get a chapter each, but team Airbnb never comes to life.
If the book has a flaw, its this,

Gossipy titbits, like Cheskys relationship with IndianAmerican girlfriend Elissa Patel, are conspicuously missing, Gallagher focuses only on the business of Airbnb, “Airbnb tapped into something greater than low prices and an abundance of available inventory, It offered an experience that was special and different, Even its imperfections fed into a growing desire for a travel experience that felt a little smallerscale and more artisanal than staying at a standard hotel,” she writes.
“It also opened up access to different kinds of neighbourhoods than traditional tourist zones, so you could have an experience that felt more local.
These elements were particularly powerful for millennials, who have exhibited a growing dissatisfaction with big brands and a greater sense of adventure, and those who grew up so accustomed to digitalonly interactions that venturing into the home of someone theyd connected with online wasnt much of a stretch,” she tells us.


The explosive popularity of Airbnb has inevitably brought it into conflict with its biggest competitorthe hotel industry.
Hoteliers complain that Airbnb has an unfair competitive advantageit is not subject to the regulations and taxes that the holiday industry is.
Hotel industry lobbyists have enlisted the help of the law effectively in cities like San Francisco and New York.
The story of this upstart digital industry battling with its traditional model is fascinating for anyone following the disruptive nature of todays world.
And Gallagher tells it well, Even though

she is obviously partial to the magic of the Airbnb proposition as is this writer!.
She also tackles the crises in Airbnb, including the much reported ransacking of hosts houses and the media outrage over them.


Great reading for anyone who has ever stayed in an Airbnb or is considering staying in one, for all entrepreneurs everywhere, and for anybody interested in seeing up close what “disruption” is really all about.


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