The Airbnb boss said he has 'so many' favourite employees whom he he texts regularly. He is also known to gather his top 100 employees annually for a secretive three-day meeting to strategise the future of the company.
Sam Altman said 'a lot of people' had come forward to help him once ChatGPT gained popularity in late 2022, but nobody really pitched in except Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky.
CEO Brian Chesky shared that what had started off as a productivity strategy at Airbnb turned into something more in time. He said, 'Sometimes it’s just hard for one person to be a unicorn, to be able to do everything, but if you could create...
'And then we did have to fire people, or they’d have to leave the company, and you don’t fire members of your family,' Brian Chesky said recollecting at the height of the Covid pandemic in 2020 when Airbnb announced a layoff.