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Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia answers questions from early-stage founders about design thinking, building trust in marketplace businesses, and why his new venture Samara applies Airbnb's lessons to housing.
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Canon
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Gebbia explains that Airbnb's core innovation was not a booking platform but a trust environment: every design decision — profile photos, host reviews, verified listings, insurance — was designed to make strangers comfortable sleeping in each other's homes.
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Gebbia credits his RISD education for teaching him to study the biographies of great designers — Eames, Dieter Rams, Buckminster Fuller — as mentors who demonstrate how to approach problems creatively.
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