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Airbnb Co-Founder Joe Gebbia on early “a-ha” moments, elite design + his new startup Samara | E1675

This Week in Startups

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What's Your Definition of Good Design?

The Airbnb logo, I think, is so playful and bright and air and sky. It kind of gives you that wanderlust, I would say. Even the website feels like that feeling when you get to a new location in Japan or wow, I'm in Paris. The design of the website had to communicate this Olympic sized trust to get people to feel comfortable with us.

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