Brian Chesky
Brian Chesky
Brian Joseph Cheskyis an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded the hospitality exchange service Airbnb. Chesky is the CEO of the company and was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People of 2015"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth29 August 1981
CountryUnited States of America
people kind millions
Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.
passion people innovation
Culture is so incredibly important because it is the foundation for all future innovation. People with passion can change the world,
apples differences people
People went to Dell for the computers, but they go to Apple for everything… That’s the difference between a transactional company and a transformational one.
jobs entrepreneur innovation
A company's culture is the foundation for future innovation. An entrepreneurs job is to build the foundation
love-you people like-you
It's better to have 100 people love you than to have 1,000,000 people like you.
people matter stuff
The stuff that matters in life is no longer stuff. It's other people. It's relationships. It's experience.
scales teach
Do things that won't scale; it will teach you.
dream growing-up thinking
The American dream, what we were taught was, grow up, own a car, own a house. I think that dream's completely changing. We were taught to keep up with the Joneses. Now we're sharing with the Joneses.
passion way culture
Culture is simply a shared way of doing something with passion.
writing culture email
[On culture] It's living the core values when you hire; when you write an email; when you are working on a project; when you are walking in the hall.
important culture missions
Having a clear mission and making sure you know that mission and making sure that mission comes through the company is probably the most important thing you can do for both culture and values.
thinking artist entrepreneur
Designers + artists see potential in things where others do not. I think artists in many ways are the original entrepreneurs.
people leader helpful
The second thing I had to do was not to be reluctant as a leader...And when I started doing that, I realized that people are thriving from this, and that it's so much more helpful for people.
roles ambiguity adviser
I had to learn to get comfortable in a role of ambiguity where I had to seek out advisers and learn quickly.