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Brian Chesky

13 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Oct 17, 2016 by Joe Gebbia · said 24 times in 4 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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brought up most by Guy Raz (13), Joe Gebbia (10), Adam Grant (1)

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Oct 17, 2016 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Airbnb’s SXSW launch yielded just six listings and two bookings
“We actually had six people put up listings in Austin, and we had two people book those listings. One of them was Brian.”
Joe Gebbia Oct 17, 2016 ▶ 11:30 Airbnb: Joe Gebbia
Oct 17, 2016
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Landlord raised their rent by 25% immediately after they quit
“Who politely states that our rent is now 25% higher than it was the month before.”
Joe Gebbia Oct 17, 2016 ▶ 3:14 Airbnb: Joe Gebbia
Oct 17, 2016
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Airbnb founders made $20,000 selling $40 novelty Obama O's cereal
“Well, it almost didn't matter, because at 40 dollars a box times 500 boxes, we made 20,000 dollars in breakfast cereal.”
Joe Gebbia Oct 17, 2016 ▶ 23:41 Airbnb: Joe Gebbia
Oct 17, 2016
Assertion Not checkable as stated
First prospective guests submitted resumes and LinkedIn profiles for airbeds
“People actually started sending us their resumes, their LinkedIn profiles, to vie for one of these limited three airbeds.”
Joe Gebbia Oct 17, 2016 ▶ 7:07 Airbnb: Joe Gebbia
Oct 17, 2016
Assertion Supported
Airbnb originally charged guests $80 per night to sleep on an airbed
“For 80 dollars a night. You could stay in San Francisco with Brian and I.”
Joe Gebbia Oct 17, 2016 ▶ 7:15 Airbnb: Joe Gebbia
Oct 17, 2016
Disclosure
Chesky and Gebbia simultaneously quit their jobs to brainstorm startups
“Both of us simultaneously quit our jobs. He left his, I was at Chronicle Books full-time at that point, and I left to dream up something with him.”
Joe Gebbia Oct 17, 2016 ▶ 2:18 Airbnb: Joe Gebbia
Aug 13, 2020
Disclosure
Chesky: Airbnb planned to file its S-1 in March 2020 before pausing
“We were, we're going to file it late March. We put on the shelf and recently we've been dusting it off, you know, and you have to update it because the business has changed.”
Brian Chesky Aug 13, 2020 ▶ 19:39 How I Built Resilience: Brian Chesky of Airbnb
Aug 13, 2020 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Chesky: Airbnb raised $2B in emergency financing in 72 hours
“Then we quickly raised two billion dollars... Thankfully we had some great investors step up but we had to do that deal, and that was like over the course of 72 hours to like get that deal done.”
Brian Chesky Aug 13, 2020 ▶ 3:22 How I Built Resilience: Brian Chesky of Airbnb
Aug 13, 2020 neutral
Assertion Supported
Chesky: Airbnb raised $20K-$30K selling novelty cereal boxes in 2008
“Yeah, like 20 or 30,000. It was yeah, something like that. Joe told the story. We had to raise collectible breakfast cereal. We were air, bed, and breakfast. So we said, well, let's do collectible breakfast cereal for the Democratic-Republican National Convent…”
Brian Chesky Aug 13, 2020 ▶ 8:38 How I Built Resilience: Brian Chesky of Airbnb
Aug 13, 2020 negative
Assertion Supported
Chesky: Airbnb lost 80% of its business in eight weeks during COVID-19
“We spent 12 years building Airbnb, and then we lost 80% of business in eight weeks.”
Brian Chesky Aug 13, 2020 ▶ 2:55 How I Built Resilience: Brian Chesky of Airbnb
Aug 13, 2020 positive
Disclosure
Chesky: Airbnb will be ready to IPO in 2020 if markets allow
“And we don't know when we'll be public, but I basically said, we'll be ready this year if the market's ready for us. If the market's not ready, we'll be ready when they are.”
Brian Chesky Aug 13, 2020 ▶ 19:51 How I Built Resilience: Brian Chesky of Airbnb
Aug 13, 2020
Insight
Chesky: Leaders should reject robotic corporate playbooks when executing layoffs
“There is no playbook, I don't think, to lay people off, and that's the kind of thing that if there was a playbook, you should never use it, because the thing that people want more than anything is, They want humanity. They want compassion, and that means that …”
Brian Chesky Aug 13, 2020 ▶ 2:28 How I Built Resilience: Brian Chesky of Airbnb
Aug 13, 2020
Assertion Partly supported
Chesky: Airbnb slashed over $1B in planned marketing spend during COVID-19
“We cut over a billion dollars of planned marketing spend.”
Brian Chesky Aug 13, 2020 ▶ 3:18 How I Built Resilience: Brian Chesky of Airbnb
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