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“When you're doing well, investors will give you money on such good terms that it's hard not to take it. But if you do, it will make you slow and bloated.”
Brian Chesky’s new playbook
youtu.beOne of Airbnb’s co-founders, Brian Chesky, went one step further and lived entirely in Airbnb properties for several years, describing it as the best way to ‘take the pulse’ of the company.
Bernadette Jiwa • Story Driven: You don't need to compete when you know who you are
Letter #115: Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, and Nate Blecharczyk (2020)
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Chesky pushes PMs to always lead with the perfect experience without constraint . "Airbnb has stretched me to think about entire experiences, not just software."
Ken Norton • Building Products at Airbnb
“I think people think of design as how something looks. But that’s a superficial definition—it’s how something works,” says Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky, who says he called Ive as soon as he saw his resignation announcement from Apple and asked to be one of LoveFrom’s first clients. Chesky, who studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, adds, ... See more
Jony Ive • Jony Ive on Life After Apple
“I actually stay in the details,” Chesky told me. “CEOs at S&P 500, Fortune 100 companies, I think most of them aren't really in the details of their product. At some point, these companies get so big, that it's pretty typical that you get a little detached, that it's someone else's job to listen to customers. But it's not your job. And I've al... See more