The Tim Ferriss Show

#301: Joe Gebbia – Co-Founder of Airbnb

Mar 8, 2018
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 5min
2
What Is Your First Memories of Getting Into Trouble?
04:51 • 4min
3
What Are Some of the Things That Your Dad Tried?
08:41 • 2min
4
Was It Your Dad's Idea to Bring You Along on Business Trips?
11:10 • 2min
5
Did You Ask to Be Brought Along?
12:40 • 5min
6
Did You Redesign the High School T-Shirt?
17:25 • 2min
7
The Senior T-Shirt
19:40 • 3min
8
The Environment vs the Medium
22:35 • 3min
9
High School Senior Pranks - Is There a Prank?
25:39 • 3min
10
Getting a Cordless Phone Into a Community School
28:56 • 2min
11
What Do You Do With That Access?
30:56 • 2min
12
A Prank Is Happening and I'm Like, Oh, Gotta Do This Today, Alright, Prank Is Happening
32:40 • 3min
13
I've Got to Do This Right Now
35:28 • 2min
14
I'm Like, I Don't Know What You're Talking About
37:36 • 2min
15
I'll Never Remember This
39:52 • 3min
16
Is Your Son Not Graduating High School?
43:21 • 2min
17
High School Pranks and Controversies
44:55 • 3min
18
The Story of a Prankster - I Love This, I'm Going to Pitch This to My Executive Producer
47:27 • 3min
19
How Do You Get Into Basketball?
50:01 • 2min
20
The Entry Level Position in Basketball?
52:08 • 2min
21
NBA Experience - I'll Never Remember That!
54:02 • 2min
22
How to Get Comfortable With Uncomfortable Situations
56:05 • 2min
23
RISD - A Level Up, This Is a Level Up?
58:26 • 3min
24
The Chess Set Project at RISD
01:01:00 • 6min
25
A Study Job, I've Got a Study Job and I'm Trying to Fund a Bench Design
01:06:36 • 2min
26
How Do You Make a Chair?
01:09:00 • 2min
27
You Are a Rounding Error
01:11:19 • 4min
28
Is This Impossible, Really Imposable?
01:15:14 • 2min
29
How to Get Better at Basketball and You Need to Play With People Who Are Better Than You and That'll Come Back When We Talk About Airbnb
01:17:00 • 2min
30
Is There a Basketball Team?
01:18:41 • 4min
31
The RISD Basketball Game
01:22:34 • 3min
32
RISD Students Who Want to Make a Juggling Team?
01:25:57 • 1min
33
How to Make Crit Buns Out of Hard Foam
01:27:23 • 5min
34
I've Got No Options, I'm Not Going to Give Up!
01:31:55 • 2min
35
RISD Design School - 600 Kryptons
01:33:28 • 3min
36
How Do You Sell Kryptons Today?
01:36:31 • 3min
37
I'll Give Myself Zero Seconds, I Already Forgot It One More Time, Sw Squared Plus Wc Equals Mo
01:39:26 • 2min
38
How to Get a New Product Into Your Store
01:41:36 • 3min
39
What's the Process of Accepting a Product?
01:44:22 • 2min
40
RISD - Is MoMA a Trade Show?
01:45:52 • 2min
41
How Do You See This Fitting Into Your Life?
01:48:12 • 3min
42
Design Boom - The Story Isn't Translating
01:51:38 • 4min
43
The Titan of the Kripbuns Empire
01:55:23 • 2min
44
RISD - Why Did You Stop Kripbuns?
01:57:19 • 3min
45
How to Find Sustainable Materials
02:00:15 • 3min
46
Cripbuns, a Seat Cushion for Art Students and Designers
02:03:18 • 3min
47
What Did You Learn From E-Collect?
02:05:54 • 2min
48
Ecollect and Cripbuns Full-Time
02:08:01 • 3min
49
RISD and Cripbuns
02:10:36 • 6min
50
Airbed and Breakfast
02:16:17 • 4min
51
Airbnb Sales Process - Step Five of the Cripbuns
02:19:55 • 5min
52
Getting Rid of the Awkwardness
02:24:41 • 2min
53
Airbed and Breakfast - The Next Iteration
02:26:50 • 6min
54
Reframe Rejection as an Opportunity to Keep Going and You Don't Have to Say Yes or No
02:32:44 • 3min
55
Entrepreneurship Is Just a Shortcut
02:35:52 • 4min
56
How to Get a Short Email From Me Every Friday
02:39:53 • 5min