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The 15 Coolest Offices In Tech: Airbnb Office Tour

By Alyson Shontell
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  Chad Riley

Airbnb is a billion-dollar startup that lets you rent or book rooms with peers.

Check out Airbnb's cool San Francisco headquarters.

Start by walking down this long hallway. What's that in back?

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It's the old PanAm logo on the wall. The windows make it look like the inside of an airplane. PanAm was synonymous with air travel back in the day.

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The office itself is pretty swanky, as fits a member of the billion-dollar club. Those chairs look comfy!

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HR head Jabu Dayton chills in the padded reading nook with her dog, Biscuits Jackson.

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But the coolest part are the conference rooms, which were designed after AirBnb listings. This one is based on a mushroom cabin in Aptos, California.

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Here's the original.

AirBnb Aptos mushroom cabin
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Now head into this conference room.

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It's based on an apartment in Hong Kong. That's online marketing manager Maria Hwang with her head down working.

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Here's that place in Hong Kong. Airbnb worked with the apartment owners to get the details right, all the way down to that picture on the wall.

AirBnb Hong Kong apartment
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Here's an outside view of a couple more conference rooms.

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This one looks like an artist's pad in Berlin.

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They even got the curtains right.

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See? Here's the original.

AirBnb Berlin apartment
AirBnb

This one is based on an apartment in Soho, New York.

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It's packed with art.

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Here's what the original looks like.

AirBnb Soho apartment
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The kitchen is just a kitchen, although those colored fridges look pretty cool.

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The ladies' room has an inspirational message -- "life is lovely."

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While the guys get an antelope's head.

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Alyson is the Editor-in-Chief and CCO at Fortune.  She was previously a co Editor-in-Chief overseeing Business Insider's tech and business coverage.She joined Business Insider in July 2008 as the company's sixth employee. She started as a sales planner before joining the editorial team in 2010, where she became a startup reporter and was first to cover some of today's largest tech companies, including Pinterest, Tinder, Instagram, Uber and Snap. Alyson rose to become a senior correspondent, then Executive Editor.She was appointed Editor-in-Chief of Business Insider in 2016, at which point she became the youngest and only woman to run a global business publication. Under her leadership, the business division has grown to hundreds of  millions of monthly readers.Alyson was a host of  Insider's conferences and launched a podcast, "Success! How I Did It," where she interviewed influencers ranging from Sheryl Sandberg to Steve Ballmer about their career paths (subscribe on iTunes here).She has appeared on ABC, Good Morning America, Al Jazeera, MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, and CBC, and she has interviewed media personalities such as Megyn Kelly, technology leaders like Fred Wilson, political leaders like John Brennan, and sports star LeBron James. She is a judge for the prestigious Gerald Loeb Awards in business journalism, and has been named one of Min's Rising Stars in Media, as well as Folio's 2017 Top Women in Media.She graduated from Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications, where she majored in psychology and advertising.You can read some of her investigative articles here:— Leaked videos reveal the true founding story of Snapchat— The founder who dumped Jared Kushner: Inside the phone call that left the White House star in a fit of rage— The downfall of billion-dollar startup, Fab— How a startup that raised the largest seed round in Silicon Valley history blew itself up before it even launched— The dark side of Facebook, where people lie, cheat, and make millions— A profile of Uber's controversial CEO, Travis Kalanick— The mystery of Jody Sherman, a founder who was driven to suicide and left behind a shocking business disasterDisclosure: Alyson owns bitcoin and Snap. She is also an investor in The Spun, a sports-media startup founded by her husband.
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