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Michael Covel's Trend Following

Ep. 906: Rob Chesnut Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Business, Investing

4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Robert Chestnut, the General Counsel of Airbnb, Inc. A graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of Virginia, he worked for fourteen years with the U.S. Justice Department as a prosecutor. He joined eBay in 1999 as its third lawyer and founded its Trust and Safety team.

The topic is his book Intentional Integrity: How Smart Companies Can Lead an Ethical Revolution.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Political Leaders
  • Silicon Valley
  • Definition of Integrity
  • Intentional Integrity
  • Discrimination
  • Law Enforcement and Justice

Jump in!

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I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

To start? I'd like to give you a great piece of advice you can use in your life and trading journey… cut your losses! You will find much more about that philosophy here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/trend/

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive.

0:10.9

Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.

0:21.2

I am your host, Michael Coval.

0:24.0

Not filtered, raw, honest.

0:27.4

That's my passion.

0:33.4

My guest today has been intimately involved with Silicon Valley for 20 years.

0:39.0

He happens to have one of those unique purchases where he's at a chance to see behind the scenes.

0:46.2

Rob Chestnut is my guest today. He is General Counsel of Airbnb.

0:51.2

And today we're discussing his new book, Intentional Integrity, How Smart Companies Can Lead

0:57.8

an Ethical Revolution. Look, we all know it's a world where a lot of people play fast and

1:04.3

loose. We hear the horror stories. For example, we work. And that's just in the last couple years.

1:13.0

I mean, we can all think back over the last 10, 20, 30, 40 years and come up with just

1:20.2

awful ways of doing business.

1:23.5

But I really like Rob's perspective because he's laying out a scenario where you can get rich,

1:31.8

but do it in a right way, do it in an ethical way, with some integrity.

1:37.8

That's always a great message for all of us.

1:42.6

I will always forever enjoy this podcast because out of nowhere, it gives me the chance to meet

1:50.2

with a guy like Rob, even though it's digitally, but to meet with somebody of his background,

1:57.0

of his understanding, and learn something.

2:00.3

That's the name of the game.

2:02.3

Without any further delay,

2:03.7

let's jump right into my conversation with Rob Chestnut.

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