{"id":6149,"date":"2014-11-08T15:12:02","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T21:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6149"},"modified":"2014-11-08T15:12:02","modified_gmt":"2014-11-08T21:12:02","slug":"the-future-of-airbnb-in-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6149","title":{"rendered":"The future of Airbnb in cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mckinsey.com\/insights\/travel_transportation\/the_future_of_airbnb_in_cities\">McKinsey<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since its founding, in 2008, Airbnb has spearheaded growth of the sharing economy by allowing thousands of people around the world to rent their homes or spare rooms. Yet while as many as 425,000 people now stay in Airbnb-listed homes on a peak night, the company\u2019s growth is shadowed by laws that clash with its ethos of allowing anyone, including renters, to sell access to their spaces. In this interview with McKinsey\u2019s Rik Kirkland, Airbnb cofounder and CEO Brian Chesky explores how the company\u2019s relationships with cities can evolve. An edited transcript of Chesky\u2019s comments follows.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;Interview transcript<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;Starting a revolution<br \/>&nbsp;It\u2019s a currency of trust, and that used to live only with a business. Only businesses could be trusted, or people in your local community. Now, that trust has been democratized\u2014any person can act like a brand.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;Airbnb is a way that you can, when you\u2019re traveling, book a home anywhere around the world. And by anywhere, I mean 34,000 cities in 190 countries. That\u2019s every country but North Korea, Iran, Syria, and Cuba.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;The reason we started was I was living with my roommate, Joe, in San Francisco, and I couldn\u2019t afford to make rent. That weekend, the International Design Conference was coming to San Francisco. All the hotels were sold out. Joe had three air beds. We pulled the air beds out of the closet, we inflated them, and we called it the \u201cAir Bed and Breakfast.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McKinsey: Since its founding, in 2008, Airbnb has spearheaded growth of the sharing economy by allowing thousands of people around the world to rent their homes or spare rooms. Yet while as many as 425,000 people now stay in Airbnb-listed homes on a peak night, the company\u2019s growth is shadowed by laws that clash with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6149"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6150,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6149\/revisions\/6150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}