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New Year's is here, and with it brings the possibility of change.

As one behavioral scientist put it, first starts are really powerful.

So as you head into 2023, LifeKit is a great resource to help you plan your life and tackle changes, both big and small.

Listen to the LifeKit podcast from NPR.

We ended up going from 0 to 800 homes in a matter of four weeks.

And I have to tell you, I thought that this was it, like this was our rocket ship to the moon.

You thought we made it, we're here, we got it.

Right, if you build it, they will come and look what's happening.

And so we get introduced to 20 investors in Silicon Valley.

Ten of them replied our email. Five of them needed for coffee.

Zero invested in us.

From NPR, it's how I built this.

A show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built.

On today's show, the story of how a side hustle to pay rent led Joe Gavilla to build a company that now has more rooms than the biggest hotel chain in the world.

Ten years ago, even five years ago, most of us would have thought the idea of renting at a room in our home to a complete stranger,

a little creepy, even spending the night in someone else's home you never met would probably seem weird, especially on vacation or a business trip.

But now it's not just normal, it's actually the preferred way to overnight for millions of people around the world, even celebrities do it.

And the company that made all of this normal, of course, is Airbnb.

And the guys who started it had no background in travel or hospitality or even technology.

Joe Gavilla graduated from art school at the Rhode Island School of Design.

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