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Inside Sequoia's Investment Committee | How the SpaceX & Citadel Deals Went Down | Julien Bek
- ▶ 19:40 Julien Bek I, I wasn't there, but I heard the Airbnb story multiple times over, where, um, I think that Brian Chesky had been turned down by most other firms, and, um, 3 times in the scene
Uber President on Travis, China & Self-Driving | Why Autonomy Is Existential | How to Beat DoorDash
- ▶ 51:19 Andrew Macdonald (Mac) I mean, Brian Chesky got kind of roasted, but I thought it was an insightful point when he said, it's not clear to him that like the, the right interface for hotel booking is a chat interface.
Coinbase Cuts AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40B Valuation & Impending IPO | The Year for SaaS Roll-Ups · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:16 Jason Lemkin Pre-AI, SaaS, or, or a crypto company, but man, I'm just, enough of the crap from Brian Chesky and the, I mean, these are generative, generational founders, use Harry's words, but I'm just, it's just performative.
Flexport CEO: Two Questions Every Founder Needs to Ask · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:03 Harry Stebbings but then Brian Chesky says, don't ever take the highest price.
The Hardest Working Startup in America | Nico Laqua, Co-founder & CEO @ Corgi · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:58 Nico Laqua Yeah, I, I think price, Brian Chesky told me one time to never take the highest price and I've taken that to heart.
The Five Year Desert to Product Market Fit & a $5.3BN Valuation with Shiv Rao, Founder @ Abridge · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:37 Harry Stebbings How do you think about, you know, Brian Chesky obviously speaks about founder mode and the importance of getting as close to the bare metal as possible.
Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:32:42 Cliff Weitzman Um, and like the Steve Jobs idea of, this is one thing that Brian Chesky and Dylan Field are very right about.
Alex Rampell: The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers & Labour | The Future of Venture · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:29 Alex Rampell Brian Chesky at Airbnb studied everything about, you know, bed and breakfast and hotel industry in the 1800.
Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:28 Shervin Pishevar And investing in the future Travis's, or the future Elon's, or, you know, invested in Airbnb and got to see Brian early on.
Karri Saarinen: How to Grow Capital Efficiently in a World of BS Growth | E1221 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:10 Karri Saarinen I think Brian Chesky is very driven or passionate about the experience. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:57 Harry Stebbings How do you think about an assessed founder mode, given your context with Brian, and also now being one of the hottest founders in the valley?
Zach Perret: Why ‘Founder Mode’ is the Most Dangerous Blog Post for Founders | E1215 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:56 Zach Perret I also think that, you know, like, like, building a philosophy off of Brian Chesky, who's, like, you know, one of the most amazing leaders, like, yeah, 3 times in the scene
David Cahn: Why Servers, Steel and Power Are the Pillars Powering the Future of AI | E1186 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:42 David Cahn and you think of Brian Chesky at Airbnb, right?
Kevin Hartz: "How I Lost Airbnb at Seed Because of an Exploding Term Sheet" | E1180 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:26 Kevin Hartz You know, we'd go over to, I think the loft was on Natoma, or there was a street which, Tahama maybe, uh, that, that Brian, Nate, and Joe all lived together, and they were building together, 2 times in the scene
Pedro Franceschi: What Brex Needs to do to be a Public Company | E1178 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:06 Pedro Franceschi I heard a thing from Brian Chesky once that really stuck with me, which is like,
- ▶ 33:09 Pedro Franceschi from brian's playbook at airbnb so the realization here is so there was this feeling that i had probably in
Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:17 Danny Rimer Brian, Brian Chesky from Airbnb repeatedly loves to say, you know, Index is, is the team that they wish they, they're, it, 2 times in the scene
Alex Wang: Why Data Not Compute is the Bottleneck to Foundation Model Performance | E1164 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Tom Blomfield: Do the Best All Raise Pre-Demo Day & YC's Fundraising Advice to Startups | E 1152 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:31 Tom Blomfield The partners are specific, and then we have our own speakers, so, um, one night a week will be your group event, and you'll get someone like Brian Chesky, or Paul Graham, or we had Kevin's sister on the Instagram founder come and talk to…
- ▶ 1:05:12 Tom Blomfield Um, I mean, Brian Chesky, maybe as a second actor, he could come to YC. 2 times in the scene
Keith Rabois & Eric Glyman: The Tools, Tips, Secrets and Process That Drive Efficiency | E1148 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:38 Keith Rabois So Brian Chesky, for example, taught me the six months ahead test, which is, can you think like an executive you have in place, leader in place will deliver results or you wouldn't have them there. 2 times in the scene
Rujul Zaparde: Why Hiring Inexperienced People is Better | E1144 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:19 Rujul Zaparde Brian Chesky, uh, you know, CEO of Airbnb, just how the level of attention to detail, uh, when it comes to the Airbnb product, uh, I mean, I, you know, you remember, remember design reviews, uh, where to his credit, he would be able to… 2 times in the scene
Sam Altman & Brad Lightcap: Which Companies Will Be Steamrolled by OpenAI? | E1140 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:52 Sam Altman Chesky has been incredibly hands-on and helpful to me over the last year and a half, uh, and is really good at a lot of things that, uh, I'm not good at, and I've had to, like, come up to speed quickly on, um, how to think about how we… 2 times in the scene
Sam Corcos: Why Founders Should Take as Many VC Meetings as Possible | E1093 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:17:21 Sam Corcos I listened to a podcast with, uh, Brian Chesky and Lenny Ruszytsky just a couple days ago,
Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:10 Keith Rabois And if you ask Brian or Joe, would you start a company from scratch today as a new founder?
The Ultimate Guide for Building a Two-Sided Marketplace | a16z's Jeff Jordan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:10 Jeff Jordan Watching Brian Chesky and the founding team there refine the Airbnb messaging over the years to the point now where I actually think it's, you know, it's a spectacular brand that's, you know, that's current, um, positive, it's on the right…
a16z GP Jeff Jordan: The Ultimate Guide to Two-Sided Marketplaces | 20VC #966 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:08 Jeff Jordan Watching Brian Chesky and the founding team there refine the Airbnb messaging over the years to the point now where I, I actually think it's, you know, it's a spectacular brand that's, you know, that's current, um, positive.
Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone: The Yahoo Turnaround Plan | 20VC #911 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:31 Jim Lanzone And, you know, I heard Brian Chesky speak recently on, on the cuts he made at Airbnb, uh, and, you know, during, you know, the initial, uh, COVID crash in 2020,
Aydin Senkut: How I Scaled from a $4M Angel Fund to $900M AUM | 20VC #890 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:26 Aydin Senkut I mean, I still have an email from 2008 from Brian Chesky.
20 Product: Lenny Rachitsky on The 3 Key Roles of the Product Manager, 5 Skills All The Best PMs Have, When To Hire Your First PM, How to Structure the Hiring Process for PMs & What Leaders Can Do to Make Their PMs Successful
- ▶ 6:16 Lenny Rachitsky Brian's kind of famous for in meetings always being like, how do we 10 X this goal? 4 times in the scene
20VC: How I Lost a $125M Deal with Yahoo by Being Too Honest, The M&A Meeting with Steve Jobs That Did Not Go Well and How U2's Bono Saved The Day For One Tech Startup with Ali Partovi, CEO @ Neo
- ▶ 26:12 Ali Partovi I didn't invest in Airbnb the first time I met Brian. 5 times in the scene
20VC: Reid Hoffman on Investing in Airbnb and Passing on Stripe, The Different Styles of Truly Great Leaders, How To Think Through Ownership and Price in Venture & How To Ensure Venture Partnerships Always Have Trust and a Learning Mindset
- ▶ 22:06 Reid Hoffman And so I first put off meeting Brian and Joe and Nate in this because they were trying to reach me.
- ▶ 34:26 Reid Hoffman They're literally, like, they are in the set, you know, along with, you know, the entrepreneurs that, you know, I've invested in, you know, the Brian Cheskis and the Chris Hermsons, the entrepreneurs that I learned from, they are…
- ▶ 38:32 Reid Hoffman That I would love to add to the culture, and some people haven't, like, for example, the Airbnb founders, you know, all of Brian, Nate, and Joe, is not only to think about the success of your individual products, and the success of your…
20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on 3 Key Breakthroughs Startups Experience in Success, The Rise of Angel and Operator Funds, Multi-Stage Funds Re-Entering Seed Investing and The Insight Development Framework
- ▶ 26:46 Mike Maples So for example, Brian Chesky at Airbnb at the time is called Airbed and Breakfast pitched me
20VC: Y Combinator's New President, Geoff Ralston on The Single Most Important Perspective An Investor Can Provide A Founder, The Biggest Lessons From Working Alongside Paul Graham & Why You Will Lose As An Investor If You "Profile Invest"
- ▶ 11:19 Geoff Ralston If you have an awesome team that gives you that idea, you might say, well, gosh, you know, maybe there's some adjacent market that might be fantastic, and Paul Graham had the genius to see that, and the genius to see that the Bryan team…
- ▶ 27:57 Geoff Ralston Extraordinary, amazing, incredible people from Paul and Trevor and Robert and Jessica, the founders, to Sam, the Collisons, the incredible founders of incredible YC companies, Drew Houston, Brian Chesky's, the incredible founders of newer…
20VC: Why Too Many People Give Up Too Quickly, Why You Should Never Start A Venture Without Owning The Underlying Data & Why We Have Over-Estimated The Ability of Automation with Dennis Mortensen, Founder & CEO @ X.ai
- ▶ 27:17 Dennis Mortensen As in, sometimes, surely, you win the lottery, and you stumble into an Airbnb, and if you're Brian, good for you.
20VC: The Right Way For Founders To Think About Capital Efficiency, How To Create A Culture of Continuous Learning & The Secret To Talent Assessment and Optimisation with Mariam Naficy, Founder & CEO @ Minted
- ▶ 13:19 Harry Stebbings Brian Chesky's openly declared his concerns about the amounts being raised today.
20VC: Sequoia Partner, Pat Grady on Why Data Is The New Oil, Why We Will See The Return of The Apprenticeship Model in VC & The Defining Characteristics of The Next Generation of Great Software
20VC: Why Venture Is A Service Product? Why There Is No Such Thing As Product Market Fit & Why Startups Need To Be More Design Orientated with Ben Blumenfeld, Co-Founder & General Partner @ Designer Fund
- ▶ 23:44 Ben Blumenfeld I guess it's cliche, but Joe and Brian at Airbnb, right?
20VC: a16z's Balaji Srinivasan on Why There Is A Financial Incentive For Truth In VC & Why The Best VCs Invest In Founder To Make Them Richer Than Themselves
- ▶ 25:03 Balaji Srinivasan Um, so let me give you one example, like, uh, you know, Brian Chesky at Airbnb is fond of, uh, you know, a bunch of articles written in the late 1800, early 1900 about these, um, I forgot what they were called.