Airbnb furnished each new manager with a set of online tools to monitor the health of the business and with something Chesky called an ‘office in a box.’ It contained a guidebook to setting up an Airbnb-like working environment and included various props, like a portable Ping-Pong table and the books Delivering Happiness by Zappos founder Tony Hsieh and Oh, the Places You’ll Go by Dr. Seuss. ‘Brian was always worried about how do we scale our culture – how does every Airbnb office feel?’ says Dubost, who joined Airbnb’s business travel team and left the company in 2016.
