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Zynga Founder: Consumer Is Not Investible Right Now - Thats Why You Should Build It · Y Combinator Jun 25, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 21:26 Garry Tan A lot like Brian Chesky's founder mode in a way. 3 times in the scene

Paul Graham, Founder of Y Combinator, Live from Stockholm · Y Combinator May 13, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:24 Paul Graham Surprisingly often, you'll see Brian Chesky or Sam Altman, right, and think to yourself, all right,

Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers · Y Combinator May 8, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 12:42 Garry Tan I took the other review plan that we had, and then, uh, I said, okay, well, let's do a version of this, but, like, imagine Brian Chesky sitting with you. 3 times in the scene

Dylan Field: Scaling Figma and the Future of Design · Y Combinator Aug 8, 2025 · 2 mentions

How to Spend Your 20s in the AI Era · Y Combinator Jul 8, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 36:28 Diana Hu And Brian Chesky quotes a lot of some of the best advice he got from PG during the batch was to really hone in to find 10 people that love your product much better than, I don't know, a hundred randos.

How To Build A Truly Abundant Future · Y Combinator Apr 4, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 21:21 Garry Tan That's sort of like the defining thing that Brian Chesky from Airbnb who coined the term, uh, actually Paul Graham coined the term founder mode, but it was in response to, you know, Brian's own experience as a founder, like, 2 times in the scene

How To Build The Future: Parker Conrad · Y Combinator Jan 10, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 39:40 Garry Tan Brian Chesky at a recent alumni event, um, went for two hours talking really just off the cuff, but also like very personally about what it was like to even have, uh, you know, the company he started really kind of ripped away from him… 2 times in the scene

Building A $2 Billion SaaS Company: Lessons From A Two Time Founder · Y Combinator Jan 8, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 11:39 Rujul Zaparde Um, but it was great to see Brian Chesky that the CEO be so involved
  • ▶ 12:56 Dalton Caldwell You were at the retreat we had, um, where the founder mode, it was not called that at the time, it was just Brian Chesky talking,

Why Design Matters: Lessons from Stripe, Lyft and Airbnb · Y Combinator Oct 16, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:07 Katie Dill What I think the, you know, founders that we're talking about here, right, like, you know, Brian Chesky and Joe and Nate,

B2B Startup Metrics | Startup School · Y Combinator Dec 15, 2023 · 1 mention

The Secrets To Setting Smarter Goals · Y Combinator Jan 11, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 25:25 Michael Seibel Like, you know, I remember when I was, uh, starting social cam, I emailed Brian Chesky saying, do you want to angel invest? 3 times in the scene

How To Talk To Users | Startup School · Y Combinator Dec 1, 2022 · 8 mentions

Where Do Great Startup Ideas Come From? – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator Jan 19, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:48 Michael Seibel You know, Brian came and spoke to YC recently, and he shared the story that when he used his own product and he forgot to bring money for payment, and the host thought he was a fraud, he realized, oh crap, like, our site needs to allow…

Elad Gil and Pejman Nozad - Startup Investor School Day 3 · Y Combinator Mar 8, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:40 Geoff Ralston Because some guy named Brian Chesky sent you an email.
  • ▶ 15:57 Elad Gil And so that's an example of somebody who's constantly scaling, or Brian Chesky is sort of notorious for having very rapidly ramped in the, in the role of CEO.

Paul Buchheit - Startup Investor School Day 2 · Y Combinator Mar 7, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:18 Paul Buchheit So I emailed Brian, I'm like, hey, missed you guys today, was, you know, hoping to chat, um, and invest.

Sam Altman - Startup Investor School Day 1 · Y Combinator Mar 6, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 19:39 Sam Altman If you look at a founder who comes to meet you for a seed round, um, and compare that founder to Brian Chesky, you'll be disappointed a hundred percent of the time. 2 times in the scene

Uncut Interview with Sam Altman on Masters of Scale [Audio] · Y Combinator Feb 23, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 51:01 Sam Altman Interesting failure mode to me is people that we said no to that would have been the next Zuckerberg or Chesky or whatever, and there are three or four people over the years that I have turned down at interviews that didn't go on to do…

From Startup to Scaleup | Sam Altman and Reid Hoffman · Y Combinator May 31, 2017 · 4 mentions

Later Stage Advice with Sam Altman (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 20) · Y Combinator May 1, 2017 · 1 mention

Team and Execution with Sam Altman (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 2) · Y Combinator Mar 17, 2017 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 9:05 Sam Altman Um, as an example of how intense Brian Chesky is, he's the Airbnb CEO, um, 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. 7 times in the scene

Office Hours with Sam Altman · Y Combinator Jan 11, 2017 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 9:08 Craig Cannon For example, uh, Evan Spiegel from Snapchat, uh, didn't have a programming background, neither did Brian Chesky at, uh, Airbnb. 3 times in the scene

Jessica Livingston : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator Aug 30, 2016 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 4:18 Sam Altman Like, could Brian Chesky of Airbnb have told you during YC, here's how we're gonna be a twenty-five billion dollar company, and here's what we're gonna look like seven years later? 2 times in the scene

Jessica Livingston at Female Founders Conference 2014 · Y Combinator Mar 12, 2014 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:17 Jessica Livingston This photo here is, um, Brian, Joe, and Nate when they did YC back in 2009, and they made something that a few people really loved and just expanded from that core.
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