Post by High Priestess on Jul 22, 2016 2:37:56 GMT
Airbnb's plan rests on the shoulders of Peter Kwan, who started Home Sharers of San Francisco:
time.com/4416136/airbnb-politics-sharing-economy-regulations-housing/
The future of Airbnb’s political strategy rests on the shoulders of men like Peter Kwan. ( peterkwan )
A retired law professor who lives in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood, Kwan founded what one Airbnb insider called the “Adam and Eve” of home-sharing clubs, organizing fellow hosts to go door to door during political battles and to enjoy whitewater rafting trips in the off-season.
In the past year, such clubs have become the focus of a political strategy that the $24 billion company is pushing around the world. And on Thursday, the company plans to announce in a new report the progress their team has made so far on the stated goal of establishing such clubs in 100 cities by the end of this year. At mid-year, more than 60 have been established, from Maui to Mexico City, and the company believes they’ll meet their aim.
“We decided to replicate what we had in San Francisco, which is to put on the ground, in a global way, a mobilization effort,” says Chris Lehane, a seasoned Democratic operative who was hired nearly a year ago to head the company’s growing policy team. “It’s something I’ve never really seen a company do.” By that, he means his company is spawning a true grassroots political movement.
time.com/4416136/airbnb-politics-sharing-economy-regulations-housing/
The future of Airbnb’s political strategy rests on the shoulders of men like Peter Kwan. ( peterkwan )
A retired law professor who lives in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood, Kwan founded what one Airbnb insider called the “Adam and Eve” of home-sharing clubs, organizing fellow hosts to go door to door during political battles and to enjoy whitewater rafting trips in the off-season.
In the past year, such clubs have become the focus of a political strategy that the $24 billion company is pushing around the world. And on Thursday, the company plans to announce in a new report the progress their team has made so far on the stated goal of establishing such clubs in 100 cities by the end of this year. At mid-year, more than 60 have been established, from Maui to Mexico City, and the company believes they’ll meet their aim.
“We decided to replicate what we had in San Francisco, which is to put on the ground, in a global way, a mobilization effort,” says Chris Lehane, a seasoned Democratic operative who was hired nearly a year ago to head the company’s growing policy team. “It’s something I’ve never really seen a company do.” By that, he means his company is spawning a true grassroots political movement.