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Brian Chesky Biography

Brian Joseph Chesky (born August 29, 1981) is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded the hospitality exchange service Airbnb. Chesky is the CEO of the company and was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People of 2015".

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Designers + artists see potential in things where others do not. I think artists in many ways are the original entrepreneurs.

Artist, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Original, See, Thinking

The office is the laboratory and meeting your users is like going into the field. You can't just stay in the lab. And it's not just asking users what they want, it's about seeing what they're doing.

Asking, Office, Stay, Want

If you want to create a great product, just focus on one person. Make that one person have the most amazing experience ever.

Create, Focus, Person, That One Person, Want

There's no such thing as a good or bad culture, it's either a strong or weak culture. And a good culture for somebody else may not be a good culture for you.

Culture, May, Somebody, Strong, Weak

Whatever the press is talking about, they want to keep talking about it. So instead of asking yourself, 'How can I get them to start talking about me?', figure out a way to get yourself involved in what they're already talking about.

Asking, Involved, Start, Talking, Want, Way

Brand is really the connection between you and your customersif you have a very strong culture, then the brand will come through.

Brand, Connection, Connections, Culture, Strong

The stuff that matters in life is no longer stuff. It's other people. It's relationships. It's experience.

Experience, Longer, Matter, People, Stuff

The stronger the culture, the less corporate process a company needs. When the culture is strong, you can trust everyone to do the right thing. People can be independent and autonomous. They can be entrepreneurial.

Company, Entrepreneurial, Independent, People, Strong

Culture is simply a shared way of doing something with passion.

Culture, Passion, Simply, Way

What I've been surprised by is not how different people are, but how similar they are. There are certain types of Airbnb people, and they are in every city in the world - it's just that in some cultures, there is more of a generational divide.

Certain, Cities, Different, People, Similar

Don't listen to your parents.

Listen, Parent, Parents

[On culture] It's living the core values when you hire; when you write an email; when you are working on a project; when you are walking in the hall.

Core, Culture, Email, Working, Writing

A company's culture is the foundation for future innovation. An entrepreneurs job is to build the foundation

Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Foundation, Innovation, Job, Jobs

The second thing I had to do was not to be reluctant as a leader. . . And when I started doing that, I realized that people are thriving from this, and that it's so much more helpful for people.

Helpful, Leader, People, Thing, Thriving

It's better to have 100 people love you than to have 1,000,000 people like you.

Like, Like You, Love, Love You, People

When you start a company, it's more an art than a science because it's totally unknown. Instead of solving high-profile problems, try to solve something that's deeply personal to you. Ideally, if you're an ordinary person and you've just solved your problem, you might have solved the problem for millions of people.

Art, Ideally, People, Problems, Trying

I'm not saying the whole world will work this way, but with Airbnb, people are sleeping in other people's homes and other people's beds. So there's a level of trust necessary to participate that's different from an eBay or Facebook.

Different, Ebay, Home, People, Sleep, Way

We start with the perfect experience and then work backward. That's how we're going to continue to be successful.

Being Successful, Perfect, Successful, Work

Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.

100, Brilliant, Kind, Million, People

Having a clear mission and making sure you know that mission and making sure that mission comes through the company is probably the most important thing you can do for both culture and values.

Clear, Culture, Important, Missions, Probably, Thing

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