Brian Chesky (co-founder of airbnb)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 130 minutes

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Brian Chesky (Co-founder and CEO of Airbnb) is a businessman and industrial designer. Brian joins the Armchair Expert to discuss if gaining success lived up to the expectations, how he struggled to fit in at school, and what his first startup was. Brian and Dax talk about what being an industrial designer means, where the idea for Airbnb came from, and how detrimental loneliness can be to human health. Brian explains why streamers were okay with losing money for years, how fast technology is accelerating human society, and what rules should have been instituted for social media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome. Welcome. Welcome to armchair expert experts on expert. I'm Dan Rather. I'm Monica Padman and tonight on 60 minutes
0:09.6	You're gonna learn all about Brian Cheskey. Who is Brian Cheskey, Monica? Brian Cheskey is the founder and CEO of Air B&B
0:19.3	A company we have partook. Yo, God many many many times, but guess what else? What's my birthday?
0:27.7	Happy birthday. This is the 24th August 24th. We celebrate the day of our Lord on this wonderful day some 36 years ago
0:39.0	Beautiful brown baby was brought home from the hospital into the loving arms of a show in Nermy
0:44.9	Yeah, what she didn't know is that eight years later another little baby would be arriving and she wouldn't want to share the spotlight
0:57.0	Happy birthday, buddy. Thanks. I'm so happy you were born and you're with us. Me too. Hmm. I thought I was gonna die yesterday. Okay, because I
1:07.5	Realized I had been delinquent on my seizure medication. I was out. Oh, and how long had you gone without it? No
1:14.7	I just went to take it and I was like I'm out so I had to just go to bed and you're all for the best
1:20.3	But you made it. I did but I really caught myself but for about 20 minutes
1:25.6	I thought wow, what if I died a night like really and then I it was weird as like I wouldn't I won't know
1:32.5	Right how weird that I won't know see you and I
1:37.5	Brainwarks so differently. I would my first hobby like why don't I have a seizure tonight?
1:43.0	I don't know that I'm gonna take this anymore. Yeah, that's where my brain will go. I thought you were going
1:48.0	No, right? It's felt like a setup for that. No, that's also not how it works
1:52.9	You have to like really taper off. I regret not asking Brian his opinion on my
1:58.2	Trading your medicine
2:02.4	This was a really I don't think well, I didn't know the
2:06.1	Founding or Genesis story of Airbnb and it's really fascinating. He has quite a story
2:11.4	He really has quite a story and I really enjoyed talking to him. Yeah, me too
2:15.7	Also, I guess if you want to go to hang out with Ashton and Mila or Brian
2:19.8	He puts his own house up and you can live you can stay with him. Yeah
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