Podcast of the Week No.11

Every time I hear Airbnb co-founder, CEO and head of community Brian Chesky speak I usually walk away chewing on some kind of new, novel thought.

Kara Swisher released her talk with Brian at the recent 2018 Code Conference on her Recode/Decode podcast channel [here] and I'm still chewing on a new concept I learned listening to Brian: Community marketplace.

Airbnb has a community of over 3 million passionate space sharers. All around the world. And over 2/3 of them only list on Airbnb. That is an incredibly powerful locked-in base of users. Can you imagine what you can do besides sharing spaces with that community base?

The possibilities and execution of ideas related to those possibilities is exactly what Brian is focused on. It was interesting to listen to him talk about 'experiences' just one of the ideas he has on how to pull on and grow that powerful community.

Cent also has a strong community. It's still small by Airbnb standards right now, but users are passionate about the product and some are consistently providing sincere responses. Imagining what may be possible when we grow those users into an army of consistent and sincere responders is pure gas to the fiery passion I have for this project.