Brian Chesky
Co-founder and CEO of Airbnb, cited for his management principle of managing work rather than people.
“Brian Chesky believes in doing things in non-scalable ways and doing it himself with a team by hand... 'If you talk to Brian Chesky about his launches, he already knows that he has a hit. He's not launching it to find out if people like it.'”
Source→“Brian Chesky reportedly planning to launch a new AI lab 'expected to focus on user interaction and design' while remaining Airbnb CEO.”
Source→“Airbnb's Brian Chesky launches an AI lab.”
“Brian Chesky put it better... we don't manage people, we manage work. So people that just generally have high agency — we never have to check on whether they're doing something.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.