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Brian Chesky

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“Out the bottom. And so it kind of comes down and down and down. You have to keep filling it and keep filling it and keep filling it. And the problem is that like anything, you can't just do when you keep doing the same acts. You must do even bigger acts. You have to go bigger to get the feeling you had before. I think this is incredibly typical of people like I know tech entrepreneurs where a lot of them had challenges of authority, didn't fit in, wanted to be loved, and were really good at something. And it's not to take away any of that, but just to know where it comes from. Now that I know where it comes from, I've been able to have a much healthier relationship with it. I still love what I do, but now it's really interesting. My motivations have gone more internal, more intrinsic. Instead of wanting to be super successful to feel a certain way, part of me says, why if I've not felt that way, I probably never will. And, you know,”
2023-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Airbnb CEO: “IT WAS SO DARK WE NEARLY DIED!”. I Was Lonely, Deeply Sad & Wanted To Be Loved! [INSPIRING!] Brian Chesky · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“100% And I would think both of those identified. I felt like my entire life was. Many people have turned to addiction. And if I turn to one was work. And luckily my addiction was very productive. And so no one ever called it that. Like no one says that somebody's working all day and night, especially if they're doing something creative. If you're an accessible entrepreneur, and it was mostly, I mostly made me happy. But the challenges that if you are doing something, hoping to become something, hoping you become something, and then therefore you're going to feel a certain way because people are going to treat you a certain way, it turned out that what I wanted was love and what I was actually retracting was adulation. And so the problem is we try to seek conditional love. We do something great. We get noticed and then people show us love and admiration. But it's probably not love or admiration. It's probably adulation. And adulation, I think, is like a cup with a hole at the bottom. And the problem is you fill the cup, but then something leaks.”
2023-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Airbnb CEO: “IT WAS SO DARK WE NEARLY DIED!”. I Was Lonely, Deeply Sad & Wanted To Be Loved! [INSPIRING!] Brian Chesky · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Hyperactive implications. Difficulty concentrating. I was never diagnosed with ADHD, maybe today if I was growing up, somebody might have may have said that, but I don't know. But I had an intense energy. I was always trying to do things differently. I remember in junior, like middle school, I would try to redesign the school curriculum or something like just kind of interesting, frankly kind of bizarre things. I was a bit of a performer. I wasn't into acting or anything, but I did a lot of like public speaking and I would do a lot of creative writing. But I remember I always was like, I was always different. And different wasn't good growing up. That was maybe the core thing. I think the core thing is I was different. That was different in almost every way Indifferent wasn't good.”
2023-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Airbnb CEO: “IT WAS SO DARK WE NEARLY DIED!”. I Was Lonely, Deeply Sad & Wanted To Be Loved! [INSPIRING!] Brian Chesky · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think I want to design a world that I could live in, that I could fit into because I probably didn't think I fit quite into the world that I grew up in. Absolutely. That's a hundred percent the case.”
2023-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Airbnb CEO: “IT WAS SO DARK WE NEARLY DIED!”. I Was Lonely, Deeply Sad & Wanted To Be Loved! [INSPIRING!] Brian Chesky · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I didn't really feel like I was at home. I felt like I was searching for home. And there's this great... Bob Dylan quote he said it took me a long time to find my way home. And I think it did for me as well. I feel like I never found my way home until I was surrounded at school with other creatives, but before that I was just kind of an outsider and things were very challenging and painful.”
2023-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Airbnb CEO: “IT WAS SO DARK WE NEARLY DIED!”. I Was Lonely, Deeply Sad & Wanted To Be Loved! [INSPIRING!] Brian Chesky · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Great question Think I was a very sensitive child. I think I was a very idealistic child. I think I was trying to what might one might describe as The numerous challenges of childhood, I think childhood is really hard for people. And I think for me especially, like I was young, small, undersized, I had trouble fitting in at school. I remember just having a really intense environment and being I remember when I was a kid. Would watch The ABC where they were like a Disney called the Wonderful World of Disney. And I would see these old videos of Walt Disney on television from the 80s, but it was from him in the 60s. And he described these magical worlds I was just so obsessed with designing a world that was different and better than the one I was in. I just think I had a lot of kind of anxiousness. And I never really.”
2023-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Airbnb CEO: “IT WAS SO DARK WE NEARLY DIED!”. I Was Lonely, Deeply Sad & Wanted To Be Loved! [INSPIRING!] Brian Chesky · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Cost has implications on how you design it. How much it's going to cost depends on who was the audience. How are you going to market it? You see, when an architect designs a building, no one like blames the architect if the office building doesn't get leased out. But in industrial design, you can't design a product and not sell and you say it was a good design. I would have never imagined that would have come to use to run a tech company. It turns out industrial was one of the best educations to run a tech company, but I had no idea I was going to do that.”
2023-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Airbnb CEO: “IT WAS SO DARK WE NEARLY DIED!”. I Was Lonely, Deeply Sad & Wanted To Be Loved! [INSPIRING!] Brian Chesky · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Halfway through freshman year, they tell you to declare a major. What kind of artism designer? I'm like, I'm still 17. And I got to tell you what type of artisan designer this guy comes in and he pitches an apartment called Industrial Design. It just sounded cool. Industrial design. And I was like, what is industrial design? And I remember him saying something like industrial design is the design of everything from a toothbrush to a spaceship in everything in between. To design a physical object, you have to understand three dimensions. You can't just design an object, you have to understand how to make the object. If you were a graphic designer, you didn't really have to know how to make anything. Yes, you have to know how to print it. What kind of materials is it? Are the material sustainable? Where do you manufacture it? How much is it going to cost? How much is going to cost?”
2023-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Airbnb CEO: “IT WAS SO DARK WE NEARLY DIED!”. I Was Lonely, Deeply Sad & Wanted To Be Loved! [INSPIRING!] Brian Chesky · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, yeah, thank you for having me on. I came from a pretty normal nondescript background, but in parallel to sports and all the regular things kids had, I had this other interest. And it was a thing that most defined me. And that was that I was an artist. I would be drawing and drawing and I have these pads of paper, and I'd go through hundreds and hundreds of pages almost compulsively drawing, both trying to learn how to mimic an environment and reproduce it in reality. And when I was ten, I could probably draw like an adult and by the time I was in high school, I could, you know, draw like, you know, probably akin to a professional artist. I love design worlds. I wanted to design and escape. At the age of 17, I decide I'm going to design school. So I've already taken like a hundred opportunities in life. And now I'm like, okay, I'm going to do this. I'm not going to be like a politician, a doctor, a lawyer, an astronaut. I'm going to be an artist or designer.”
2023-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Airbnb CEO: “IT WAS SO DARK WE NEARLY DIED!”. I Was Lonely, Deeply Sad & Wanted To Be Loved! [INSPIRING!] Brian Chesky · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You lose 80% of your business in eight weeks. And I knew there were questions. Is this the end of Airbnb? Will Airbnb exist? We had to make some incredibly difficult decisions. So I write this letter to the entire company. Here's what I said”
2023-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Airbnb CEO: “IT WAS SO DARK WE NEARLY DIED!”. I Was Lonely, Deeply Sad & Wanted To Be Loved! [INSPIRING!] Brian Chesky · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Airbn and breakfast was just a way to keep paying your rent before we came up to the big idea. We did not think Airbn and Breakfast would be a company where 4 million people a night would use. Don't focus on the mountaintop. Focus on the first step. A lot of breakthrough ideas don't seem breakthrough at the time. They seem crazy. People tend to overestimate what they can do in a year and underestimate what they can do in 10 years. 10 years is a profoundly long period of time to group discipline and focused. And you can have a small idea, a small dream, and you can build something vast.”
2023-10-09 · The Diary of a CEO · Airbnb CEO: “IT WAS SO DARK WE NEARLY DIED!”. I Was Lonely, Deeply Sad & Wanted To Be Loved! [INSPIRING!] Brian Chesky · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT