An interview and Q&A with billionaire Co-founder and CEO of Airbnb, Brian Chesky. In this interview Brian discusses creating Airbnb and the how he had to hustle in the early days. Brian also talks about creating the unique culture of Airbnb and the events that made Airbnb scale fast.
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Billionaire Brian Chesky: Creating Airbnb, Scaling Fast and Culture
Video Segments:
0:00 Introduction
0:34 The story of Airbnb
8:27 Lessons learnt from going with a crazy problem
9:34 The early days
20:53 What changed the inflection?
26:29 How did you start moving to many cities?
30:20 7 star design
35:24 It's not just the web page
36:55 How to apply design to the office?
40:40 Creating a culture with the office
41:56 Living in airbnb’s for a year
45:08 Designing culture
48:55 Keeping culture when scaling
52:10 The challenges of scale
56:01 What got you here, will not get you there
1:00:09 Dealing with competition
1:08:02 Government relations challenges
1:13:52 Paris terror attack
1:20:22 Start of Q&A
1:20:34 Learning how to learn?
1:23:45 Picking Co-founders?
1:26:18 During tough times, why did you keep going?
1:30:23 Going back to your core business?
1:35:03 What's difficult for you right now?
