Brian Chesky
Co-founder and CEO of Airbnb, cited for his management principle of managing work rather than people.
“I'm honored to be here once and now twice... Brian's amazing. So I'll let that one go.”
Source→“These aren't merely hobbies - these guys are founding and funding companies that presumably take up significant amounts of finite and highly valuable time, attention, and energy.”
Source→“"It was an interesting secret because it was something that probably everybody in the world knew at one point, but they had all forgotten. Everybody had forgot why we had hotels."”
Source→“Brian Chesky says don't ever take the highest price. Don't ever. That I disagree with.”
Source→“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→“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.