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Fast Company
April 2014
Austin Carr |
Inside Airbnb's Grand Hotel Plans Counting beds on offer, Airbnb is already the fifth-largest hotelier in the world, with unparalleled global reach. The startup, whose prices are at least one-sixth cheaper than its traditional rivals, expects to have 1 million listings by the end of 2014.   |
Fast Company
Austin Carr |
What Hotel Operators Really Think Of Airbnb Airbnb, the online service which enables hosts to rent out their homes or spare bedrooms, has become a threat to the traditional hotel companies, which are now trying to figure out ways to compete in the sharing economy. |
Fast Company
Austin Carr |
Airbnb Unveils A Major Rebranding Effort That Paves The Way For Sharing More Than Homes Brian Chesky is unveiling a brand overhaul that impacts everything at Airbnb, from its advertising and product messaging to its community outreach and web and mobile services. |
Fast Company
Daniel Terdiman |
Airbnb Gets Personal With New Tools For Hosts And Hints At Better Search In The Future They intend to improve the search experience for those who rely on the service to find short-term lodging, mainly through making it more personal and responsive to users' individual needs. |
Fast Company
Alice Truong |
Airbnb Says It Will Pay Hotel Taxes In San Francisco Cooperating with local regulators, home rental website Airbnb has agreed to pay San Francisco's 14% hotel tax, a week after the company said it would begin collecting hotel taxes in Portland. |
Fast Company
February 2016
Max Chafkin |
Can Airbnb Unite The World? Airbnb, which offers travelers an experience that is more unique and localized has benefited from the shift in consumer preferences to smaller, more localized ideas and products. |
The Motley Fool
August 2, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
This Is Not My Beautiful HomeAway A ransacked home has vandalized shares of HomeAway. |
Fast Company
July 2004
Cheryl Dahle |
Weathering the Perfect Storm Hotels in San Francisco have been hit harder by the economic downturn than in any other city. One progressive hotelier plans to survive -- and thrive -- by focusing on investors, employees, and customers. |
Fast Company
Samantha Cole |
How A Startup Grows Up: Lessons From Airbnb's OpenAir Summit Startups can learn a lot from the leaders at a recent summit on the sharing economy. |
Inc.
October 2007
Mike Hofman |
The Idea That Saved My Company Embattled hotelier Chip Conley found inspiration from an unlikely source: psychologist Abraham Maslow. |
Entrepreneur
July 2004
Karen E. Spaeder |
Stake Your Claim Contrary to popular belief, there's no need to ante up a fortune when you're playing the startup game. Here's how 3 entrepreneurs launched high-cost businesses the low-cost way. |
BusinessWeek
September 25, 2006
Andrew Blum |
Small Hotels, Big Personalities Indie establishments serve up singular style along with luxurious touches and 21st century amenities. |
Fast Company
October 19, 2011
Dan Macsai |
The Anxieties Of Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky charts his anxiety level since his rent-a-stranger's-apartment service began. |
Fast Company
John Paul Titlow |
Is Airbnb About To Become A $24 Billion Company? Just two months after Uber announced its quest for a $1.5 billion round of funding that would value the company at $50 billion, Airbnb appears to be on a similar track |
Fast Company
Pavithra Mohan |
Airbnb Hosts Discriminate Against Black Renters, Study Finds A new study from Harvard Business School finds that Airbnb hosts are more likely to book reservations with users who have "distinctly white" names, according to Bloomberg. |
| Fast Company |
The World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies In Travel Innovative companies on the list include Airbnb, Tesla, and HotelTonight. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Harvard Study Finds Oakland's Asian Airbnb Hosts Earn Less Than White Hosts The research paper found that Asian hosts on average earn $90 less per week or 20% less than white hosts for similar rentals. |
Fast Company
November 2015
Jillian Goodman |
Airbnb's Belinda Johnson On Why Being Too Productive Can Be A Problem For the past four years, Airbnb's chief business affairs and legal officer, Belinda Johnson, has been responsible for Airbnb's regulatory efforts, a tough, sometimes controversial position as the company has grown. |
Inc.
November 2008
Bobbie Gossage |
My Place: Chip Conley's Urban Sanctuary Chip Conley, founder of Joie de Vivre Hotels, describes his renovated townhouse in San Fransisco. |
Fast Company
Chris Gayomali |
Here's Another Thing About The Sharing Economy You Might Not Have Thought Of: The Tax Bill Some people will be owing upwards of 40% of what they earned from "share economy" ventures in federal taxes. |
This Old House
July 2, 2015
Elizabeth Lilly |
How to Prep Your Place for a Home Exchange Turn your place into the perfect vacation rental |
Fast Company
Sarah Kessler |
How Airbnb Adapted For China Airbnb announced new strategic partners in China on Tuesday that it hopes will, as CEO Brian Chesky said in a statement, "create a truly localized platform." |
Fast Company
Drake Baer |
How Airbnb Solved The Mystery Of Predictive Pricing Rather than force users to summon their inner real estate agent, Airbnb set to crafting an algorithm to create predictive pricing. |
Fast Company
Sarah Kessler |
Airbnb Is The Latest Tech Company To Hire Big-Name Political Talent Airbnb announced on Thursday that it had hired Chris Lehane, a former advisor to President Clinton, as its new head of global policy and public affairs. |
Inc.
December 1, 2002 |
Shop Talk Three entrepreneurs compare notes on surviving tough times, making smart decisions, and knowing when to walk away. |
Fast Company
Pavithra Mohan |
Tesla Is Offering Electric Car Charging Stations To Airbnb Hosts In California Tesla's chargers, which normally cost $750, will be free for hosts. The only expense on their end will be the installation fee, which can run anywhere from $200 to $900. |
