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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Brian Chesky comes up
Be Your Best in 2026: The Most Important Lessons from The Knowledge Project (2025)
- ▶ 8:13 Shane Parrish And this goes back to the, I'm sure you're aware, the Brian Chesky, you know, the founder mode. 2 times in the scene
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport
- ▶ 20:26 Ryan Petersen Brian Chesky, um,
- ▶ 54:40 Ryan Petersen Well, the number one thing I think is, um, I learned from Toby from Shopify and Brian Chesky who've been good advisors for me. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:41 Ryan Petersen Uh, Chesky does his twice a year update.
Elad Gil: How to Spot a Billion-Dollar Startup Before the Rest of the World
- ▶ 57:21 Shane Parrish Do you mean that in the sense of the, I guess the nomenclature that, that Brian Jeske came out with was founder mode?
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Turning Ambitious Misfits into Founders
Bret Taylor: A Vision for AI’s Next Frontier
- ▶ 18:09 Shane Parrish And this goes back to the, I'm sure you're aware of the Brian Chesky, you know, the founder mode. 2 times in the scene
How to Win by Being Right and Contrarian: Lessons from Zappos to DoorDash
- ▶ 27:18 Alfred Lin And eventually, um, Brian and the team and the product team figured out that we needed instant book.
- ▶ 59:22 Alfred Lin And I think if you ask, uh, Tony Hsu at DoorDash or Brian Chesky at Airbnb, they would probably say the same thing.
- ▶ 1:01:59 Alfred Lin And so, I think a lot of companies have different ways of thinking about that, and Brian Chesky thinks about what's the next thing?
- ▶ 1:13:38 Alfred Lin At Airbnb, there have been a number of crucible moments as well, one of which started very early on that Brian Chesky talks about a lot, which was the PR crisis with, um, uh, a guest trashing a host, um, and that led to host guarantees,…
- ▶ 1:17:33 Alfred Lin Everybody's yelling at you from all these different angles, and Brian, just one of the most important things is to stay calm, and look at the problem that we have at hand, and figure out what the most important problems to solve for a… 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:29:57 Alfred Lin Brian wanted to take care of the employees the most, and so the layoff was the last thing that he did.
- ▶ 2:09:43 Alfred Lin I think the one that I learned from Amazon is whether this is a type one or type two decision, and, you know, if it's a type one decision, I've learned from Brian Chesky to run out the clock, because you can't go back as a type two…
Neil Pasricha: Simple Rules for Happiness
- ▶ 1:38:10 Neil Pasricha Well, I heard an old Brian Chesky quote, and I know you're a fan of his. 3 times in the scene
#77 Mike Maples: Living in the Future
- ▶ 19:21 Mike Maples Jr. So for example, uh, Brian Chesky
- ▶ 39:30 Mike Maples Jr. Yeah, so a great example of the earned secret is Brian Chesky at Airbnb. 6 times in the scene