I'm not saying the whole world will work this way, but with Airbnb, people are sleeping in other people's homes and other people's beds. So there's a level of trust necessary to participate that's different from an eBay or Facebook. — Brian Chesky Copy Share Image
People don't use Airbnb overtly to trust people more. They use it because they want to get a better sense of the culture and to save money. A by-product was that they live in someone else's shoes. — Brian Chesky Copy Share Image
Travel is a new experience that can transport you out of your everyday routine to create memories with the ones you love. — Brian Chesky Copy Share Image
Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like. — Brian Chesky Copy Share Image
Airbnb is different from most brands. We're a community of individuals, and yet there's a consistency holding us together through the values we share.… — Brian Chesky Copy Share Image
The stuff that matters in life is no longer stuff. It's other people. It's relationships. It's experience. — Brian Chesky Copy Share Image
Somebody asked me 'what's the job of a CEO', and there's a number of things a CEO does. What you mostly do is articulate… — Brian Chesky Copy Share Image
Culture is a thousand things, a thousand times. It's living the core values when you hire; when you write an email; when you are… — Brian Chesky Copy Share Image
Companies that hire employees..that are deeply passionate create companies that customers are really really passionate about, and those are the companies that have strong… — Brian Chesky Copy Share Image
The office is the laboratory and meeting your users is like going into the field. You can't just stay in the lab. And it's… — Brian Chesky Copy Share Image
It's better to have 100 people love you than to have 1,000,000 people like you. — Brian Chesky Copy Share Image
Brand is really the connection between you and your customersif you have a very strong culture, then the brand will come through. — Brian Chesky Copy Share Image
