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Chesky: Flat design is ending in favor of texture and dimensionality
“I'd like to like make the announcement that I think flat design is over or ending. You know, I think if you remember the 2000 was dominated by skeu morphism. The 2010 have been dominated with the launch of iOS seven by flat design. I think we're going to move …”
Brian Chesky Nov 12, 2023 ▶ 42:54 Brian Chesky’s new playbook
Assertion Contradicted
Chesky: Airbnb spent $1B on Google AdWords in 2019
“And by 2019, We're spending a billion dollars on AdWords.”
Brian Chesky Nov 12, 2023 ▶ 18:45 Brian Chesky’s new playbook
Assertion Supported
Chesky: Airbnb lost 80% of its business in eight weeks during COVID-19
“And then the pandemic occurred and we lost 80% of our business in eight weeks.”
Brian Chesky Nov 12, 2023 ▶ 24:20 Brian Chesky’s new playbook
Assertion Supported
Chesky: Airbnb analyzed 370M reviews to curate 2M Guest Favorite listings
“We took three hundred and seventy million reviews on Airbnb, plus millions of customer service tickets, plus all the host cancellation data, and we use all the signal to create the top two million homes.”
Brian Chesky Nov 12, 2023 ▶ 40:24 Brian Chesky’s new playbook
Assertion Supported
Chesky: Airbnb trained a custom computer vision model on 100M photos
“We built this AI powered photo tour where we created our own AI computer visioning language that we trained on a hundred million photos, and it can basically scan all your photos and organize them by room.”
Brian Chesky Nov 12, 2023 ▶ 44:00 Brian Chesky’s new playbook
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