Brian Chesky
11 statements across 3 episodes · 5 bullish · 4 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 8, 2025 by Garry Tan · said 39 times in 21 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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brought up most by John Coogan (14), Jordi Hays (5), Garry Tan (5), Travis Kalanick (2), Ali Partovi (2), Thomas Laffont (1)
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2026 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2025 22 mentions in 11 episodes 2 per episode
- Missing PayPal and Google Made Him a Better Investor | Ali Partovi on TBPN
- Weekly Recap: Apple Debuts iPhone 17, Einstein of Wall Street, YC Demo Day, Declining AI Adoption
- Garry Tan talks the state of YC, the impact of AI, and the dawn of innovation.
- OpenAI Drops A Web Browser? Our Reactions | Diet TBPN
- Weekly Recap: Casey Neistat, OpenAI Cracks Math, The Future of ChatGPT, Apple x F1, Intel Layoffs
- Weekly Recap: Tesla Robotaxi, Mr. Beast's AI Tool, Yacine, The Social Network 2, Neuralink Update
- We Interviewed the Best Startups From YC Demo Day (June 2025)
- Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 13 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
Everything said about Brian Chesky, oldest first
Mar 8, 2025 bullish
Tan: YC founder conference unlocked $10B–$100B in value
“I think that we brought together about 200 of all of our top founders. You know, there are about 60 or 70 unicorns represented. And I think that we unlocked, you know, easily 10 to a hundred billion dollars in new market cap like that very night”
Oct 22, 2025 neutral
Oct 22, 2025 positive
Oct 22, 2025 negative
Oct 22, 2025 neutral
May 8, 2026 negative
Chesky: AI Eliminates the Need for Pure People Managers
“I think AI is gonna create, like, the equivalent of an AI founder mode, which is now you gotta be even more hands-on, and I don't think in the era of AI there should be any pure people managers, because you're so close To the details, to the data, that everyon…”
May 8, 2026 bullish
May 8, 2026 bullish
May 8, 2026 positive
May 8, 2026 negative
Chesky: Great Leadership Is Presence, Not Just Delegating
“Great leadership is presence, not absence. I think a generation of management consulting, or management school, management teaching, taught us that CEOs should trust their people and get out of the way, and I don't think trust and get out of the way are the sa…”
May 8, 2026 negative
Chesky: Today's Text Chatbots Are the Wrong Interface for E-Commerce
“So what I think is e-commerce, you want a very rich user interface. It would be agentic. You can be able to have a conversation with it. You can talk to it. I could talk back to it, but I think the point is it has to be more visual. I think a text-based interf…”