Invest Like the Best
Brian Chesky - AI Founder Mode - [Invest Like the Best, EP.471]
May 5, 20261h 15m · 16,478 words
Show notes
My guest today is Brian Chesky, the co-founder and CEO of Airbnb. Our conversation traces the path from his early training as an industrial designer at RISD through the pandemic moment that forced him into founder mode. He explains why he thinks AI founder mode will demand even more attention to the details and why founders are rarely good early CEOs.
Highlighted moments
you manage people through the work. You don't manage the people. You manage the work. Otherwise, what are you doing?
“Do not do searches, generally. What you want to do is build pipelines. So here's the mistake people make when they hire. They do, I need to hire a blank. So they do a search. They hire a search firm. And the search firm scans. They give you like 50 profiles. You like call it down to 10 people. You contact 10. And you pick the best one you hire. And a year later, you realize like they're good or bad. And if they're bad, uh-oh, they've already hired their own team. That is the wrong way to do it.”
“Find an ad you like. And figure out who made the ad. Start with the results. Work backwards with people. Don't start with the resume.”
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