Brian Chesky on Startups, Leadership, and Curiosity

Founder's Journal

Morning Brew

Careers, Business, Entrepreneurship

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🗓️ 29 January 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Episode 100: On this episode, I’ll be sharing the best moments from Lenny Rachitsky’s recent interview with Brian Chesky, the co-founder & CEO of Airbnb. Airbnb is a $95bn company that under Brian’s leadership has grown into a community of 4 million hosts welcoming over 1.5 billion guests across 220 countries. These moments range from how politics & bureaucracy are created in a company to surviving near-business death in 2020 to how Brian has grown as a CEO since day 1. Send us an email and let us know what you think of the idea! foundersjournal@morningbrew.com #FoundersJournal #Startups #Entrepreneur Listen to Founder’s Journal here: https://link.chtbl.com/OV4W93_W Watch Founder’s Journal here: https://www.youtube.com/@FoundersJournal/ Subscribe to Morning Brew! Sign up for free today: https://bit.ly/morningbrewyt Follow The Brew! Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/morningbrew/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/MorningBrew Tik Tok - https://www.tiktok.com/@morningbrew Follow Alex! Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up everyone? Welcome back to another episode of Founders Journal, My personal diary made public for the world.
0:06.0	I'm Alex Lieberman, co-founder and executive chairman of Morning Brew, and I am back with my new approach to Founders Journal,
0:12.0	curating and analyzing the best startup
0:15.0	content on planet Earth.
0:16.8	If you like this new style of episode and you want more of it, please let me know at
0:20.9	Alex at morningbrew.com.
0:22.7	On this episode I'll be sharing the best moments from Lenny Rochitzky's recent interview with
0:26.9	Brian Chesky, the co-founder and CEO of Airbnb.
0:30.8	Airbnb is a 95 billion dollar publicly traded company that under Bryan's leadership has grown
0:36.7	into a community of 4 million hosts welcoming over 1.5 billion guests across 220 countries. These moments range from how politics
0:46.2	and bureaucracy are created to surviving near business death in 2020 to
0:51.5	how Brian has grown as a CEO since day one of the business.
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