Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on the founder’s role and bridging Silicon Valley’s AI divide

Podcast: The CEO Signal · Semafor Podcasts

Opublikowano: 2026-10-22

“What if design just ran the boardroom?” In this episode of The CEO Signal with Penny Pritzker and Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky explains how his training as an industrial designer shapes his unconventional approach to running the company. He describes Airbnb as a three-dimensional model in his head and explains why he remains so personally involved in recruiting and organizational decisions. “The founder is the keeper of the dream,” he says. On artificial intelligence, Chesky warns that Silicon Valley is losing touch with the people whose lives its technologies will transform. “Society fee...