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Silicon Valley's got more political. People are like running towards a certain administration.

Obviously Trump, there's a very good chance to be a new administration in three years.

Maybe not, but let's say there's a 50-50 chance of new administration.

I'm kind of curious, do they run the other way and do the world swing back and forth?

And I think there's a lot of, like, swinging.

There was, like, all this focus on, like, DEI. And then there was all this focus to, like,

roll it all back. And there's all this focus to go here. Now there's all this focus to go here.

And it's like, I try to imagine what will still be true in 20 years. Like, what do we believe in?

Because whatever is true in 20 years are our principles and our values.

And everything else is just a trend.

Everything else is just trying to fit in.

That's Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb, recorded live at the 2025 Masters of Scale Summit in San Francisco on October 9th.

I wanted to talk to Brian about the role of business in building the future at a time of dramatic disruption.

Brian shares his candid perspective on business and politics, creativity, and AI, how to make decisions in the volatile world and more. We'll be releasing additional highlights from the Masters of Scale Summit in the days and weeks ahead.

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