Brian Joseph Chesky is the co-founder and CEO of the peer to peer lodging service Airbnb. Forbes recognized him as one of “America’s Richest Entrepreneurs Under 40” in 2015. He was also in the list of TIME’s “100 Most Influential People” for 2015. Here are some quotes from him –
- “If you want to create a great product, just focus on one person. Make that one person have the most amazing experience ever.”
- “A company’s culture is the foundation for future innovation. An entrepreneurs job is to build the foundation.”
- “Everyone’s got a moment or two in their life where something happens and you make a decision and then your entire life changes.”
- “It’s better to have 100 people love you than to have 1,000,000 people like you.”
- “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 the vision, develop the strategy, and you gotta hire people to fit the culture. If you do those three things, you basically have a company. And that company will hopefully be successful if you have the right vision, the right strategy, and good people.”
- “Brand is really the connection between you and your customers if you have a very strong culture, then the brand will come through.”
- “Do things that won’t scale; it will teach you.”
- “Culture is simply a shared way of doing something with passion.”
- “I had to learn to get comfortable in a role of ambiguity where I had to seek out advisers and learn quickly.”
- “Founders are like parents and the company’s child.”
