As I scrolled through Airbnb’s Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube feeds, a few things became clear: 1. They act fast Their team has launched several large-scale initiatives since the outset of the pandemic. The first was#FrontlineStays, in which they partnered with hosts to extend ...
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ClassPass, an online fitness platform, was faced with a dilemma when the coronavirus forced local gyms and fitness studios to temporarily close. But it launched a new feature to allow its partners to offer live-streamed classes through the ClassPass app and website and allowed free access to i...
place in San Francisco, they rented out some extra space in their apartment to cover the gap. Realizing they'd struck on a great idea, they talked their former roommate Nathan Blecharczyk into joining them and officially launched Airbnb in 2008 at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, ...
Kadakia: What was really amazing and magical is our playbook worked when we would go to these new markets. We would send our team, the ones who launched a lot of cities here in the [United] States, out to these countries. Sometimes they didn't even speak the same languages, but we...
Evan worked in digital media from 2008 – 2011 when he founded, Mediakix, the first influencer marketing agency. Evan was a leader and pioneer in the space. Instagram had just launched and “influencer marketing” hadn’t even been coined as a word. Over the next few years, influencer marke...
–Couchsurfing and/or Airbnb: they are sharing alternatives to hotels. Couchsurfing was free for about fourteen years. It provided less privacy, but as a compensation if you were alone in a foreign city, you had people to talk to. Airbnb became a success story since simply it’s cheaper ...
On that same forum thread I started the article with, forum member PalmaSailor notes, talking about a group of girls he was settling in who'd rented his AirBNB: It didn’t hit me until I was welcoming the group and one said they needed an atm to get cash for the night out. So I...
The business had successfully launched into a growing market, and gained traction with a basic and quickly-built version of its app. But to reach the next level of growth, they realised they had to move up to a much more thought-through and high-quality digital product. ...
–Couchsurfing and/or Airbnb: they are sharing alternatives to hotels. Couchsurfing was free for about fourteen years. It provided less privacy, but as a compensation if you were alone in a foreign city, you had people to talk to. Airbnb became a success story since simply it’s cheaper ...