Brian Chesky
The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Brian Chesky reads as The Visionary because Airbnb, the company he co-founded and leads as chief executive, began as an idea most people found implausible and became a way the world travels. His conversation on The David Rubenstein Show reflects a leader who works backwards from a picture of the future, then persuades others to build toward it. Visionaries turn conviction into category, and Chesky's leadership follows exactly that arc.
“I think the world is never going back to the way it was fully before the pandemic. All of this has culminated Airbnb not just being a company about traveling, but now a company about living.”
“It's better to have a hundred people love your service than have a million people that are kind of apathetic. Do things that don't scale, go above and beyond.”
“I think there's a lot of loneliness in the world, and part of our bigger contribution is to help try to bring people together around the world living in communities.”
The David Rubenstein Show: “Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky”
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