Steal From The Best

Steal From The Best

Brian Chesky

Airbnb co-founder

Ideas

Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky explains why products fail when they start as business plans

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Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky explains the 11-star experience

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Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky explains why to focus on 100 people who love you

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Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky: “The more in the details I am the more time I have on my hands”

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Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky explains why you should meet people who don’t like you

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Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky explains the 10-star check-in experience

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Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky: “We were missionaries and they were mercenaries”

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Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky explains how to hire by building talent pipelines

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Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky explains how fast-growing companies become bureaucracies

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Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky explains why he doesn't do one-on-one meetings

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Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky: “The most important thing I think is being adaptable”

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Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky on how almost losing everything gave him clarity

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Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky on why social media lost intimacy

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Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky: “AI rewards deeply curious people”

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Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky: “All roads lead to 100”

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Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky explains why he stopped apologizing for how he ran the company

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Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky on why starting with friends means protecting the friendship

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Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky on decoupling the budget from the strategic plan

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Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky explains how he designed the P&L to become profitable

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Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky on what dating advice Barack Obama gave him

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Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky explains why he spent so much time hiring his first engineer

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Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky explains how he identifies good ideas

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Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky on why people feel honored when asked for advice

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Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky explains why trial and error is bad for CEOs

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Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky explains why autonomy is a fallacy

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Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky: “The phone is an enemy to focus”

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Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky explains why Airbnb decided to partner with cities

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Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky: “I think I’m less a visionary than expeditionary”

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Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky: “I don’t want society be led by a bunch of lonely people”

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Intro

▶️Airbnb's Brian Chesky: The major lessons that fueled Airbnb to scale | Masters of Scale Summit 202223:42 · 24 Aug 2024

▶️Brian Chesky, Co-Founder and CEO of Airbnb: Designing a 10-star Experience (Stanford GSB)55:29 · 27 Feb 2023

📄Masters of Scale: Do things that don't scale, with Brian Chesky

Deep

✍️Founder Mode — Paul GrahamSep 2024

🎧Brian Chesky's new playbook — Lenny's Podcast1:13:28 · 12 Nov 2023

▶️Blitzscaling 18: Brian Chesky on Launching Airbnb and the Challenges of Scale (Stanford/Greylock)1:38:29 · 30 Nov 2015

📄Lessons Learned Scaling Airbnb 100X — Jonathan Golden12 min read · 13 Aug 2018

📄Turning One Thousand Customers into One Million — HBS Working Knowledge16 Nov 2016

📑Airbnb S-1 IPO Prospectus and Founders' Letter (SEC)16 Nov 2020

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