Brian Chesky

“So first of all, I'd say they're both lightly technical, both of those guys. They both know a little bit. Brian is a great designer and was able to design the first version.”

“He used to ask people before he hired them at Airbnb if they would take the job if they got a medical diagnosis that they had one year left to live.”

“I can't, I'm not a hundred percent sure who told me this. I think it was Brian Chesky. he used to spend, or still does spend, like, 20 of his 30 nights a month taking key Airbnb employees that don't report him out to dinner. And is just like, let's talk, I…”

“If you look at a founder who comes to meet you for a seed round and compare that founder to Brian Chesky, you'll be disappointed a hundred percent of the time. That is the wrong comparison. You will never write a check. However just like startups, you look at …”

“Ben, the CEO of Pinterest is a great example of this, where every time you talk to him, ah, six months, ah, ah, later he'll have, ah, internalized everything and have learned way more than you ever knew about a topic. And so that's an example of somebody who's…”

“Still today, Brian and Joe gets calls from hosts on their personal cell phone numbers. I remember them telling me that on the first day I worked at Airbnb, Why do they do that? Well, it's the number that they put on the website and share with all of their host…”

“Brian is the co-founder and CEO of Airbnb. On the left side of the photo is Amol. Amol was the very first guest on Airbnb. They actually spent a weekend together in San Francisco when Airbnb kind of launched.”

“I remember when I was starting social cam, I emailed Brian Chesky saying, do you want to angel invest? He was like, sure. That's it. Like that was like, that was the entire time that he spent probably less than”

“There was like, there was a need for change, right? And like a need for like creating conflict within the company to actually ask the hard questions and say, Hey, do we need these folks or are, or, you know, are we actually doing this project because somebody …”

“Founder mode is for Every founder. I like to say to founders, you went and became a founder to bet on yourself, and now you don't, you shouldn't abdicate that to somebody else, to your board or your investors.”