Brian Chesky Quotes

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Brian Chesky

Profession : Businessman

Birth : August 29, 1981

I think the next big thing in music, and it's kind of because I come from the tech industry, is actually, I think it's the platform... Spotify is incredibly interesting. I think the platform is becoming the star.

Brian Chesky

The culture is what creates the foundation for all future innovation. If you break the culture, you break the machine that creates your products.

Brian Chesky

I think I've always been pretty shameless about seeking out people much smarter and much more experienced than me from the very beginning.

Brian Chesky

Unless you have fixed costs, you don't need any capital to create a prototype. Ideally, your co-founders, with sweat equity, can create the product themselves.

Brian Chesky

Customers are willing to try new things, and if you can survive, you will have fewer competitors. It's like entering the eye of the storm. As long as you are strong enough to survive, you can end up in still water by yourself.

Brian Chesky

I think we go through our lives limiting our potential, and when times are tough, it's easy to convince ourselves that something isn't possible, but if you start there, then you limit yourself and the possibilities of what you can create.

Brian Chesky

Never assume you can't do something. Push yourself to redefine the boundaries.

Brian Chesky

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. We have a common belief in belonging, but everyone's expression of it will naturally always be a little different.

Brian Chesky

The American dream, what we were taught was, grow up, own a car, own a house. I think that dream's completely changing. We were taught to keep up with the Joneses. Now we're sharing with the Joneses.

Brian Chesky

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 not just asking users what they want, it's about seeing what they're doing.

Brian Chesky

I think the key that makes Airbnb is the fact that we're a community, not just a series of commodities.

Brian Chesky

No matter how certain I am about some culture or some group of people, my opinions are only as accurate as the amount of time I've spent with them.

Brian Chesky

When we started Airbnb, I had no idea about the people we would meet or the friendships I would make.

Brian Chesky

Our perception of time is really driven by our perception of the unfamiliar, vivid, and new.

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My life is longer because of the journeys I have taken.

Brian Chesky

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

Brian Chesky

The people with the passports, the people who travel more, tend to be the most understanding. And it's ironic that the people who travel the least have the strongest opinions about the people they've never met.

Brian Chesky