Brian Chesky (co-founder of airbnb)

Episode overview

Brian Chesky (Co-founder and CEO of Airbnb) is a businessman and industrial designer. Brian joins the Armchair Expert to discuss if gaining success lived up to the expectations, how he struggled to fit in at school, and what his first startup was. Brian and Dax talk about what being an industrial designer means, where the idea for Airbnb came from, and how detrimental loneliness can be to human health. Brian explains why streamers were okay with losing money for years, how fast technology is accelerating human society, and what rules should have been instituted for social media.

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1. 0:00welcome welcome welcome to armchair expert experts on Expert I'm Dan Rather
2. 1:03:33say what a rerun is right it broke the model of residuals which is one of the main issues that we're fighting over
3. 2:09:45need to be invited yeah okay and you're invited to stay at Ash and am's you're just not going to do it yeah exactly