2008
The Airbnb founders made roughly $20,000 to $30,000 in profit from selling election-themed cereal boxes online, according to the hosts.
“they make, they end up making somewhere between 20 and $30,000 in profit from selling these things online.”
Topic
Brian Chesky
8 facts from 4 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2019
Brian Chesky says Airbnb had about 7,000 employees around 2019 and he felt he had lost control of the company.
“I had like 7,000 employees. I didn't know what anyone was doing.”
2020
Brian Chesky says Airbnb went public at roughly a $100 billion valuation, which he first considered one of the best days of his life.
“we go public, you have 100 billion dollar valuation. It's like one of the best days of my life.”
Undated
Reid Hoffman says Airbnb's founders pitched him on a marketplace for space, an idea he had not been actively considering.
“when Brian Chesky and Nate and Joe brought Airbnb to me. I hadn't really been thinking about, you know, a marketplace for space”
Undated
Reid Hoffman says Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky, who comes from the Rhode Island School of Design, approaches Airbnb as a design problem.
“he's approaching the marketplace, the experience of travel, the experience of staying somewhere, the experience of hosting somewhere as a design thing.”
Undated
Brian Chesky's graduation project at RISD was a child's ventilator.
“One of the projects I designed when I graduated was a child's ventilator.”
Undated
Brian Chesky says he held about thirty-five hours of group meetings a week in founder mode, similar to Steve Jobs's approach at Apple.
“So I probably did thirty five hours of meetings, which is very similar to the way Steve ran Apple.”
Undated
Brian Chesky says he competed in bodybuilding at the teenage national level by age nineteen.
“I ended up by nineteen competing at the national level. I competed at teenage nationals.”
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