What Should Airbnb Launch in 2022?
Photo Credit: Airbnb Founders CTO Nathan Blecharczyk, CEO Brian Chesky and Chief Product Officer Joe Gebbia attend the "Introducing Trips" Reveal at Airbnb Open LA on November 17, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. Getty Images for Airbnb / Frazer Harrison
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Worth a read, not just to appreciate the transparency into the product-led thinking of a giant, now-iconic company but also to just get inspired by some of these suggestions, and who knows, more startups to come out of these ideas.
If Airbnb could launch anything this year, what could it be? Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky last asked this question back at the start of 2017 when it was a private company, at the start a more-transparent phase of the always-controversial company.
Five years and a pandemic later, Chesky has continued to become more accessible and transparent — at least on the product side, if not the financial side — in how he runs the company and as part of that decided to bring out the question again, only this time as the CEO of a $110 billion market cap public company. Of course in keeping with the much-larger size of the company and a large personal following on Twitter for him, the responses flooded in from all around the world, many of them great startup ideas in themselves and many of them features that would make a lot of sense for Airbnb. Or Vrbo, or any other hospitalit
