An Exclusive Look At Airbnb's First Foray Into Urban Planning | fastcompany.com

Airbnb announces a brand-new innovation lab called Samara, whose first project is a novel community center in Japan. Two years ago, the founders of Airbnb were asking themselves what the company could become, now that its vision of becoming the world's largest home-share community had come true beyond their wildest expectations. That’s when they happened across a list of the top 10 tech companies of the 1990s. They were stunned—and scared.

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