Name: 與 Airbnb 背後的億萬富翁 CEO 在家 | The Circuit (At Home With the Billionaire CEO Behind Airbnb | The Circuit)
Uploaded: 2024-12-08T23:29:03.000Z
Duration: 24 min 2 s

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Let's just say this isn't your typical Airbnb.

可以說，這不是一家典型的 Airbnb。

她今天將與我們共同主持節目。

This is the infamous Airbnb of all Airbnbs.

這裡是臭名昭著的 Airbnb 中的 Airbnb。

I'm, like, really into coffee table books.

There's a lot of, like, cool design books here and, like, a lot of memorabilia.

這裡有很多很酷的設計書籍，還有很多紀念品。

This is literally how we funded the company.

這就是我們為公司提供資金的方式。

You'll see that one's autographed by the actual President Obama.

你會看到那張有奧巴馬總統的親筆簽名。

這些都是你手工製作的，對吧？

我們是和一個團隊一起設計的。

And I literally hot glued this one myself.

And it's a nice balance because, you know, I live alone.

這是一種很好的平衡，因為，你知道，我一個人住。

I don't want, like, a, you know, weird tech McMansion.

我不想要那種，你知道的，怪異的科技住宅。

你知道的，超級現代的大傢伙。

But, you know, people my age buying $100 million homes.

但是，你知道，像我這樣年紀的人都會買價值一億美元的房子。

到目前為止，擔任東道主的感覺如何？

She's a nearly one-year-old, two-year-old golden retriever.

它是一隻快一歲大的兩歲大的金毛獵犬。

It's been cool because I haven't really hosted that much since the early days.

這很酷，因為從早期開始，我就沒怎麼主持過活動了。

You're running a multi-billion dollar company.

你在經營一家市值數十億美元的公司。

Like, what made you want to make time for this?

比如，是什麼讓你想擠出時間來做這件事？

I never wanted to be one of those CEOs that's kind of an ivory tower just looking at data and spreadsheets all day.

我從來不想成為那種象牙塔裡整天盯著數據和電子表格的首席執行官。

When you first build a company, you make something usually for yourself.

初建公司時，你通常會為自己做一些事情。

And that means that you need to be emotionally connected to what you're doing.

這就意味著，你需要在情感上與你正在做的事情聯繫在一起。

I understand when hosts are complaining about something or your customer is complaining, what do they mean?

我明白，當主人或客戶抱怨時，他們是什麼意思？

So that's, like, the main reason I did it.

But then there was another reason I wasn't expecting, which was it's fun.

不過，還有一個我沒想到的原因，那就是它的趣味性。

It was crazy to think you were going to rent your house to a stranger or that you were going to stay in some stranger's house.

把自己的房子租給陌生人，或者住在陌生人的房子裡，這種想法太瘋狂了。

Does the level of human openness to that idea still surprise you?

人類對這一想法的開放程度是否仍然讓你感到驚訝？

I think I'm less a visionary than an expeditionary in the sense that I didn't have a vision.

我覺得我與其說是一個遠見者，不如說是一個遠征者，因為我沒有遠見。

I decided to let people in my house only to make money for the most part.

我決定讓人們住進我的房子，主要是為了賺錢。

And I ended up becoming friends with these people.

And it made me realize that, like, these homes are these private spaces that you never let anyone in.

這讓我意識到，這些房子都是私人空間，你永遠不會讓任何人進入。

And we thought, well, if we could solve a system of trust and make them not feel like strangers, this would be an idea that spread around the world.

我們想，好吧，如果我們能解決信任體系的問題，讓他們不再覺得自己是陌生人，這個想法就會在全世界傳播開來。

I think we have trouble imagining sociological changes, sometimes harder than technological changes.

我認為我們難以想象社會變革，有時比技術變革更難。

We can all imagine things getting bigger, faster.

我們都能想象事情變得更大、更快。

But it's hard to imagine us changing behavior.

But Airbnb has actually been a big part of, like, maybe a major sociological change.

但實際上，Airbnb 是社會學重大變革的一個重要組成部分。

I mean, it's been now been used 1.4 billion times.

我是說，它現在已經被使用了 14 億次。

And if you had told me when we first started that 1.4 billion people from 220 countries and regions would live together, that on a typical night we'd have nearly the population of Los Angeles staying together.

如果你在我們剛起步的時候就告訴我，來自 220 個國家和地區的 14 億人將生活在一起，在一個典型的夜晚，我們將有近乎洛杉磯的人口住在一起。

Like, cultures you wouldn't necessarily think mixing together.

比如，你不一定會想到要混合在一起的文化。

I think we all would have said you were crazy.

It's like most tech companies have to understand laws of physics.

這就像大多數科技公司必須瞭解物理定律一樣。

And we also have to know a different law, which is a law of human nature.

我們還必須瞭解另一種法則，即人性法則。

比如，在最基本的層面上，我們是誰？

And if you can start to understand that, then you can start to design for people.

如果你能開始理解這一點，那麼你就能開始為人們設計。