It falls on Lehane to oversee Airbnb’s strategy to push back and get the laws to turn in the company’s favor. “It’s a wild thing,” he says, sitting down for one of our chats in Airbnb’s offices. “It’s like you’re building a car, building the road, building rules, people are throwing rocks at you — it’s great!” But he freely admits he is also a consumer of what many by now have referred to as the Airbnb Kool-Aid. He believes the company has the potential to be a driving force for the middle class and says the reason home sharing has caught on with the consumer the way it has is that a series of
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