How I Built Resilience: Brian Chesky of Airbnb

Hey everyone, and welcome to How I Built This Resilience Edition. On these episodes, we're talking with entrepreneurs and business leaders about how they're adapting to these difficult economic times. And on today's show, we're gonna hear from Brian Chesky, the CEO and co-founder of Airbnb. Back in 2016, we spoke with Brian's co-founder, Joe Gebia, and he told the amazing story of how they founded and built the company, and if you haven't heard it, be sure to check it out. Now, of course, we are in a very different time. And a few months ago, Brian wrote a letter to the entire staff of Airbnb. Letting them know. That twenty five percent of the company

was gonna be laid off. This has been by far For us. the most difficult thing that we've experienced since we started the company a dozen years ago. And I think Joe and I used to talk about how

starting airbnb basically this idea that like strangers would live each other Live with each other. Like that was the hardest thing we were ever gonna do. It was like pushing a rock up a hill. And it turned out that trying to run a company that does travel preparing to go public in the middle of pandemic is about as hard. And uh and then doing it all via Zoom. Uh it was even more difficult.

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