The Airbnb Story: How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions . . . and Created Plenty of Controversy

by Leigh Gallagher

“There is basically no time for a learning curve,” Chesky says, teeing up another historic-figure paraphrase. “It’s kind of like the old Robert McNamara saying—there’s no learning curve for people who are in war or in start-ups.”