Customer understanding
What should I learn from our first few customers?
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Brian Chesky
Airbnb
Explore public conversations about designing a service people care about, learning directly from customers, and building a company around that experience. Bring a concrete customer problem rather than asking the simulation to predict how Airbnb would run your business.
96 recordings in the collection53 hrs indexed
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Service design
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Company culture
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Source guide
Brian Chesky on customer feedback: understand a few people deeply
Explore Chesky’s accounts of early customer learning in two public talks, with timestamps, attribution and a practical customer-research checklist.
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Selected recordings
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Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky On The Founder’s Role & Bridging Silicon Valley’s AI Divide | The CEO Signal
Published/uploaded 2026-10-22
Open the original ↗Brian Chesky (co-founder of airbnb)
Published/uploaded 2026-10-21
Open the original ↗Squawk Pod: AI agents with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky & Walter Isaacson - 10/01/26 | Audio Only
Published/uploaded 2026-10-01
Open the original ↗Brian Chesky: People Who Know What to Build With AI Will Pull Ahead
Published/uploaded 2026-10-01
Open the original ↗Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky Thinks He Can Make Cities More Affordable
Published/uploaded 2026-09-14
Open the original ↗Lost Early Interview of Brian Chesky & Joe Gebbia on Airbnb’s Early Days (2010)
Published/uploaded 2026-06-14
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About the person
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Brian Chesky is Airbnb's co-founder and chief executive. Trained as a designer, he brings a design perspective to the company's products, culture, and strategy.
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