CLIP: Why Kindred's Justine Palefsky Refuses To Let Hosts Get Paid!

<p>Watch full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzi7WIDadKM</p><p><br></p><p>Justine Palefsky co-founded Kindred by cold-emailing a spreadsheet full of her old colleagues&#39; spare rooms. Four years later it&#39;s a $150M-backed home-swapping network with 400,000 members who&#39;ve hosted each other for half a million nights, and she still checks herself in the mirror every morning and says: don&#39;t mess this up.</p><p><br></p><p>Justine Palefsky is co-founder and CEO of Kindred, a members-only home-swapping community she launched in 2021 with co-founder Tasneem &quot;Taz&quot; Amina. Kindred has raised roughly $150 million in funding, including backing from Andreessen Horowitz, and has grown to around 400,000 members and 100 employees, with members hosting one another for over half a million nights. Justine grew up in San Francisco, raised by parents embedded in the city&#39;s counterculture scene, studied cognitive neuroscience at Brown, worked in management consulting at Bain &amp; Company, then spent years at Opendoor and Homebound before founding Kindred out of her own frustration with the cost of living and traveling between the cities she loved.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode:</p><p><br></p><p>- Why her parents&#39; completely rule-free upbringing left her with a chip on her shoulder to prove she wasn&#39;t &quot;too soft&quot;</p><p>- The chaos of her first day at Opendoor, including a same-day flight to Phoenix and a night on an air mattress with no Wi-Fi</p><p>- Why Kindred deliberately built a model where members can&#39;t pay each other, and how that&#39;s different from Airbnb</p><p>- The five days she and her co-founder spent alone in a cabin pressure-testing their partnership before starting the company</p><p>- What building a $150M company has actually cost her, from missed birthdays to freezing embryos</p><p><br></p><p>Follow Justine:</p><p>https://www.linkedin.com/in/justine-palefsky/</p><p><br></p><p>Follow Olly: </p><p>https://www.instagram.com/olly.303/</p><p>https://www.tiktok.com/@ollyfawcett303?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=pc</p><p>https://www.linkedin.com/in/olly-fawcett-668566177/</p><p>Get frequent behind the scenes updates from Olly: https://whatittakes.kit.com/51cd36dc35</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Search terms: Justine Palefsky, Kindred, Kindred CEO, Kindred co-founder, Tasneem Amina, Taz Amina Kindred, home swapping app, home exchange network, Kindred vs Airbnb, Andreessen Horowitz Kindred, a16z portfol