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People-First Capitalism

Reid Hoffman

Airbnb got scrutiny before we were big, because Airbnb meant the internet moving into your neighborhood. When I was at RISD, I went to Rhode Island School of Design, there was this idea that was emerging called The Green Movement, the sustainability movement. And if we did, would it have been the internet?

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People-First Capitalism

Reid Hoffman

Airbnb got scrutiny before we were big, because Airbnb meant the internet moving into your neighborhood. When I was at RISD, I went to Rhode Island School of Design, there was this idea that was emerging called The Green Movement, the sustainability movement. And if we did, would it have been the internet?

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Out of the Crisis #7, Brian Chesky Part 1: running Airbnb in crisis mode, being multi-stakeholder, and re-founding the company

Startup Lessons Learned

20:32) On believing in the internet as an immune system, then learning it's not and taking responsibility.(22:55) I went to Rhode Island School of Design. At the time it was called the green movement. No longer even in the era of internet, a product customers actually liked. That the internet is an immune system.