Ben's Blog

JULY 24, 2011

Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia met at the Rhode Island School of Design and became roommates in San Francisco in 2007. The name was shortened to “Airbnb” and they launched their website in 2009. Community-driven, populated with passionate users who evangelize the service. Talk about a business with humble roots.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

I've known Brian Chesky, Co-Founder, CEO and Head of Community at Airbnb for a long time. Brian Chesky : I am Brian Chesky, co-founder, CEO, and head of community at Airbnb. I went to Rhode Island School of Design. Well the same could be viewed as a community, a marketplace, social media company, anything.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

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. What’s the way that you make sure that the stakeholders, whether they’re communities and hosts and all the other folks, and what are some of the things you do?

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

His name is Eric Cacciatore. Basically what I’m trying to do is just paint the picture of what you you need to be successful in such a challenging industry and hopefully by recording these lessons and sharing them with other people we can create this community of support and everyone can learn together. Peter: Most unfriendliest.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly – activities that make crowdSPRING a better community. Pam lives and works in Bristol, Rhode Island.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

MediaPRO Community. T ool: Curalate URL: Curalate.com What it does: Monitors and measures traffic from “visual-based platforms”—namely (for now, at least) Pinterest. Thanks for being part of the FOLIO: community. First Name. Company Name. * Rhode Island. Rhode Island. Careers Home.

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Seeing Both Sides

JUNE 3, 2009

A few weeks ago, Business Week named Boston the 3rd most inventive city in the world. With over 600 patents in his name, MIT Professor Langer is second only to Thomas Edison as the most inventive American in history. These 10 are awe-inspiring innovators and it is simply a gift to have them as members of our community.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

Before that I was an equal partner in Kaggle, which is a popular data science competition community. So plenty of dark bits, but also this weird discovery that you can create incredibly close connections with people that I've never met before and build a global community of people who want nothing more than to help save lives.

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