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HOME/PEOPLE/BRIAN CHESKY
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Brian Chesky

ROLE CEOAT AIRBNBMENTIONS 20LAST SEEN OCTOBER 20, 2026
// BIO

Co-founder and CEO of Airbnb, cited for his management principle of managing work rather than people.

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// RECENT MENTIONS
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20 SIGNALS
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mention·The AI Corner·OCTOBER 20, 2026
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mention·The AI Corner·OCTOBER 20, 2026
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mention·The AI Corner·OCTOBER 20, 2026
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mention·Dialectic·OCTOBER 8, 2026
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mention·Dialectic·OCTOBER 8, 2026
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product·StrictlyVC·OCTOBER 2, 2026

“Airbnb rolled out its new AI-powered search this week as part of its fall update, a significant step for a company that has been slow and deliberate about AI.”

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mention·StrictlyVC·OCTOBER 2, 2026

“I think that I've believed for a long time that a chatbot isn't the right interface for e-commerce.”

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mention·All In·SEPTEMBER 30, 2026
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mention·The a16z Show·SEPTEMBER 25, 2026

“Brian Chesky, when he... goes public with Airbnb, who does he write in the blog post? He writes... YC, you know, Paul, his first investor.”

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mention·The a16z Show·SEPTEMBER 12, 2026
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mention·Lenny's·SEPTEMBER 6, 2026

“Brian Chesky (Airbnb) — Mentioned for starting a foundation lab focused on next-generation user interfaces.”

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mention·20VC·AUGUST 17, 2026

“Brian Chesky got kind of roasted, but I thought it was an insightful point when he said, it's not clear to him that, like, the right interface for hotel booking is a chat interface.”

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mention·Lenny's·JULY 19, 2026

“I'm honored to be here once and now twice... Brian's amazing. So I'll let that one go.”

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mention·99d·JULY 17, 2026

“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.”

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mention·The a16z Show·JULY 6, 2026

“"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."”

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mention·20VC·JUNE 20, 2026

“Brian Chesky says don't ever take the highest price. Don't ever. That I disagree with.”

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mention·Lenny's·JUNE 14, 2026

“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.'”

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mention·StrictlyVC·JUNE 5, 2026

“Brian Chesky reportedly planning to launch a new AI lab 'expected to focus on user interaction and design' while remaining Airbnb CEO.”

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product·Newcomer Newsletter·JUNE 5, 2026

“Airbnb's Brian Chesky launches an AI lab.”

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mention·Uncapped with Jack Altman·APRIL 29, 2026

“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.”

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