Summary: The text explores how trust and community-building are essential for a CEO like Brian Chesky of Airbnb. Chesky’s approach to layoffs prioritizes fairness and empathy, shaping a positive work culture. The conversation highlights the importance of work-life balance and fostering a sense of shared purpose in the workplace.
But in every communication that I did, every decision that I made, it was always rooted in the idea is what we’re trying to do, and we always thought of Airbnb as more than just a product. We kind of thought of it as a movement, an idea, and that it needed to be bonded together with people that believe and have faith in what we’re trying to do. (View Highlight)
And if you can still make a decision after being emotionally attached to it, then you’ll have the most possible information that you should make decisions with emotion. (View Highlight)
“The absence of information is filled with dirt.” And so the less you explain something and the more opaque it is, the more I think the more distrustful people will be of that information. (View Highlight)
There’s a recent paper by Flynn and Lide showing that leaders are nine times more likely to get criticized for under-communicating than over communicating. (View Highlight)
My take on AI is that it’s gonna take longer than people think for it to reshape society when it does, it’s gonna be more profound than people realize. (View Highlight)
And it turns out that having one friend at work is enough to significantly reduce the odds of loneliness. (View Highlight)
Disney’s Pixar Up. The first 10 minutes of that film are probably some of the most emotional 10 minutes of any opening of any film ever. (View Highlight)
I’ve always wanted to have one foot in the future and one foot in the past, like understanding history and culture and where things came from. I think the best companies are gonna marry the old, timeless ideas of generations before us, with a frontier willing to have the courage to go where no one’s gone before. (View Highlight)
in some ways, the fact that you have a rhythm is more important than what you put in it. (View Highlight)
rhythm has become really, really important. It also gives people milestones to look forward to. The rhythm also creates this sense of shared experience. (View Highlight)
A company is not a family with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky (Transcript)
Summary: The text explores how trust and community-building are essential for a CEO like Brian Chesky of Airbnb. Chesky’s approach to layoffs prioritizes fairness and empathy, shaping a positive work culture. The conversation highlights the importance of work-life balance and fostering a sense of shared purpose in the workplace.
I’ve always wanted to have one foot in the future and one foot in the past, like understanding history and culture and where things came from. I think the best companies are gonna marry the old, timeless ideas of generations before us, with a frontier willing to have the courage to go where no one’s gone before. (View Highlight)
But in every communication that I did, every decision that I made, it was always rooted in the idea is what we’re trying to do, and we always thought of Airbnb as more than just a product. We kind of thought of it as a movement, an idea, and that it needed to be bonded together with people that believe and have faith in what we’re trying to do. (View Highlight)
And if you can still make a decision after being emotionally attached to it, then you’ll have the most possible information that you should make decisions with emotion. (View Highlight)
“The absence of information is filled with dirt.” And so the less you explain something and the more opaque it is, the more I think the more distrustful people will be of that information. (View Highlight)
There’s a recent paper by Flynn and Lide showing that leaders are nine times more likely to get criticized for under-communicating than over communicating. (View Highlight)
My take on AI is that it’s gonna take longer than people think for it to reshape society when it does, it’s gonna be more profound than people realize. (View Highlight)
And it turns out that having one friend at work is enough to significantly reduce the odds of loneliness. (View Highlight)
Disney’s Pixar Up. The first 10 minutes of that film are probably some of the most emotional 10 minutes of any opening of any film ever. (View Highlight)
in some ways, the fact that you have a rhythm is more important than what you put in it. (View Highlight)
rhythm has become really, really important. It also gives people milestones to look forward to. The rhythm also creates this sense of shared experience. (View Highlight)