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Brian Chesky Says Big Things Are Coming for Airbnb in 2025

At WIRED’s The Big Interview event in San Francisco, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said next year Airbnb could have “one of the biggest reinventions” in recent memory.

He posits that it’s very few, including Airbnb, but he also sees change on the horizon, likening the AI adolescence we’re in to the “internet of 1993, before search engines” when you’d use what he called ”a phone book” to find websites. Drummond also questioned Chesky about his leadership style, which has become much talked about in Silicon Valley because of phrases like “ founder mode ” (which he noted he didn’t actually coin) and the much-publicized notion that he doesn’t take one-on-one meetings anymore. He said that since the pandemic, when Airbnb lost 80 percent of its business within eight weeks and was forced to lay off about a third of the company, he’s been much more involved in the day-to-day details of what his staff is doing, telling Drummond that he thinks it’s important to mentor people through work.

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