It’s 2012 and our team has just joined Airbnb. We’re tasked with building out a “social travel” experience for Airbnb travelers. The thinking is that travelers on Airbnb are siloed across the city, and if we make it easier for guests to meet up and do things together, Airbnb trips would be significantly more meaningful. We work long and hard to design an amazing experience for travelers to discover fun local things to do with other travelers.
Earlier this year, I wrote 12 commandments for myself which I will keep revisiting more often and one of them was, "What problem am I trying to solve?" Too often, choosing the right problem statement itself is a problem statement. If we get it defined well and correctly, it's a half a problem solved. It's also important to ask:
What we should continue to do? and what we should stop doing?
Earlier this year, I wrote 12 commandments for myself which I will keep revisiting more often and one of them was, "What problem am I trying to solve?" Too often, choosing the right problem statement itself is a problem statement. If we get it defined well and correctly, it's a half a problem solved. It's also important to ask:
What we should continue to do? and what we should stop doing?