Brian Chesky People Quotations

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

People went to Dell for the computers, but they go to Apple for everything… That’s the difference between a transactional company and a transformational one.

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

Culture is so incredibly important because it is the foundation for all future innovation. People with passion can change the world,