Brian Chesky Top Business Quotes
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Brian Joseph Chesky was born on August 29, 1981, in Niskayuna, New York, United States and he is an American businessman and industrial designer. He is the co-founder and CEO of the peer-to-peer lodging service Airbnb. Chesky was named one of Time’s “100 Most Influential People of 2015 and he currently (2022) has a net worth of 13.1 billion USD.
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Now, Brian Chesky’s top business quotes. Enjoy and leave your thoughts in the comment section below.
- “AirBnB wasn’t meant to be the company we were trying to start.”
- “AirBnB was never meant to be the big idea. It was meant to be the thing that paid the rent so we could think of the big idea.”
- I think I was lucky because I found 2 great people that I wanted to start a company with.”
- People I admired that almost intimidated me at how talented, at how smart they were.”
- “You gotta build a team that is so talented that they almost make you slightly uncomfortable…”
- “…because they know by being with them you’re going to have to raise your game to be with them.”
- “Founders are like parents and the company’s the child.”
- “The child will manifest in many ways behaviours the parents have between their relationship.”
- “At some point you go from building the product, to phase 2, which is building the company, that builds the product.”
- “It doesn’t matter how great your original product or idea is, if you can’t build a great company, then your product will not endure.”
- “Think about it this way- if your company is like your child — a parent wants his child to outlive him or her.”
- “It would be a tragedy to outlive your child- also I felt it would be a tragedy for us to outlive our company & just watch it rise & fall.”
- “I kind of felt like your first engineer was like bringing in DNA into your company.”
- On making their first hire — “If we were successful, there were going to be a 1000 people just like him or her in the company.”
- “Now you want diversity- you want diversity of backgrounds and age, but you don’t want diversity of values.”
- On values — “You want very very homogeneous beliefs and that’s the 1 thing that shouldn’t be diverse.”
- “I interviewed the first 300 employees at AirBnB.”
- “There is a job and then there is a calling. We want to hire people that aren’t just looking for jobs, they’re looking for a calling.”
- “All the founding stories of your company, end up becoming the things that people repeat and talk about when you’re a thousand people.”
- “AirBnB launched and a year after we launched, I think we had 100 people/day visiting our website and we had like 2 bookings.”
- “In the year 2008, we made $5K from our website and we made $40K selling breakfast cereal.”
- “We believe constraints bring out creativity. When you raise like $800M, suddenly all that scrappiness… it’s easy to lose.”
- “Everyone knows if you don’t give a crap, you shouldn’t be here. It doesn’t mean you have to give a crap, it means you have to, to be here.”
- “Things that are hard to measure often get discounted.”
- “The biggest problem with culture is that it doesn’t pay off in the short term.”
- “Culture makes you hire people slowly and makes you deliberate about decisions that in the near term, can slow progress.”
- “This is a functional question. If you could hire anybody in the world, would you hire the person sitting across from you.”
- “Every single person is meant to hire a person better than the previous people. You’re constantly raising the bar.”
- On the decision of purchasing Samwer Brothers’ AirBnB clone— “I felt like we were missionaries and they were mercenaries. I didn’t think they were doing it for the beliefs.”
- “I believe in a war, missionaries would outlast and out endure mercenaries.”
- “Whatever happens inside the company, eventually comes out — you can’t hold it in.”
- “Brand is really the promise outside the company that everyone identifies with.”
- “Your brand evangelists are your employees.”
- “There is no such thing as a good or bad culture. It’s either a strong or weak culture.”
- “Brand is really the connection of you with your customers.”
- “There has to be I think, a deeper core belief, and if that doesn’t happen you’re a utility…and the utilities get sold at commodity prices.”
- “There’s a number of things the CEO does but what you mostly do is articulate the vision.”
- “We would go door to door in NYC, or Denver where the DNC was, literally meeting with, staying with and living with our users.”
- “I used to joke that when you buy an iPhone, Steve Jobs didn’t come and sleep on your couch but I did.”
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