What Brian Chesky learned from fight with SF

“My initial instinct was to avoid cities where we would be likely to have conflict,” he said, but then came to understand, based on what happened in San Francisco and New York, that it was better for Airbnb to introduce itself early, and explain its mission to city governments.

The other alternative, Chesky had found out, was to try to explain Airbnb’s community vision after the company’s opponents had got there first— which was a much more difficult proposition.