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Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on the gospel of Steve Jobs and what founder mode really means
The Airbnb cofounder on what he’s learned studying Silicon Valley’s greatest leaders.
It’s rare company, and what made this one particularly good is that Brian and I were together in our New York studio for the first time; it’s pretty easy to hear how much looser and more fun the conversation was because we were in the same room. You’ll hear him express some disappointment in the idea that founder mode is about micromanagement or pure swagger — and of course, we went back and forth on how much good leaders delegate and trust their teams to make decisions independently of them. The reason I brought that up in the context of Co-Host Network is that it seems like professionalizing or certifying that class of user on Airbnb goes a long way toward ending some of the gamification that occurs in the platform.
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