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#46 - Running a playbook for international expansion (Andy Schabelman & Ben Grynol)

LEVELS – A Whole New Level

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Airbnb

Andy Kuchins: The first thing that got me into Airbnb back in the day was this idea of people coming together to share in that social contract. What I was really good at was arriving in a place, hiring the team and getting an office up and running in something crazy like three weeks. So we opened up 12 offices in 11 countries in something like seven months. That was like my skill because I would just sort of arrive in a place and I'd go to a kebab spot in Berlin and I'd hear Spanish.

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