Now, making payments is as easy as sending a text message.

When we talk about the things at Airbnb that are challenging and that they are going to have to overcome, the parallels with eBay are across the board. It's community management. It's making sure the marketplace is in balance - the right amount of buyers and sellers.

Airbnb started with 'air bed and breakfast.'

We are working furiously to make customers as safe as they can be and to give them the tools to make their transactions as secure as possible.

I've been managing Internet businesses since 1999. That's 12 years of being in the tornado, and it's pretty exhausting. I'll be looking at the next challenge, but in terms of operating an Internet business, I've scratched that itch very well.

This didn't have to happen. We've got to get the law changed. It'll save lives. I'm gonna push for this the rest of my life.