Brian Chesky
Brian Chesky

Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.

Brian Chesky
Brian Chesky

Culture is simply a shared way of doing something with passion.

Brian Chesky
Brian Chesky

Culture is a thousand things, a thousand times. It's living the core values when you hire; when you write an email; when you are working on a project; when you are walking in the hall.

Brian Chesky
Brian Chesky

Belonging has always been a fundamental driver of humankind.

Brian Chesky
Brian Chesky

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

Brian Chesky
Brian Chesky

I'm not saying the whole world will work this way, but with Airbnb, people are sleeping in other people's homes and other people's beds. So there's a level of trust necessary to participate that's different from an eBay or Facebook.

Brian Chesky
Brian Chesky

When you start a company, it's more an art than a science because it's totally unknown. Instead of solving high-profile problems, try to solve something that's deeply personal to you. Ideally, if you're an ordinary person and you've just solved your problem, you might have solved the problem for millions of people.

Brian Chesky
Brian Chesky

Travel is a new experience that can transport you out of your everyday routine to create memories with the ones you love.

Brian Chesky
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
Brian Chesky

Repetition doesn't create memories. New experiences do.

Brian Chesky
Brian Chesky

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

Brian Chesky
Brian Chesky

People don't use Airbnb overtly to trust people more. They use it because they want to get a better sense of the culture and to save money. A by-product was that they live in someone else's shoes.

Brian Chesky
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
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
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
Brian Chesky

As children, we have vivid imaginations. We stay up late waiting for Santa Claus, dream of becoming president, and have ideas that defy physics. Then something happens. As we grow older, we start editing our imagination.

Brian Chesky
Brian Chesky

CEOs are often chief product officers. But for me to say I'm a chief product officer when my product is a community, I really should be thinking of myself as head of this community.

Brian Chesky
Brian Chesky

If you want to create a great product, just focus on one person. Make that one person have the most amazing experience ever.

Brian Chesky
Brian Chesky

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

Brian Chesky
Brian Chesky

Whatever the press is talking about, they want to keep talking about it. So instead of asking yourself, 'How can I get them to start talking about me?', figure out a way to get yourself involved in what they're already talking about.