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Meredith Ho

Airbnb’s CEO studied Steve Jobs’s playbook to slash bureaucracy and build his $84 billion empire

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As the competition for AI talent heats up amid Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s multimillion-dollar hiring spree, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky believes “founder mode” is still an essential strategy for corporate survival.

On a recent episode of The Verge’s “Decoder” podcast, the 43-year-old entrepreneur doubled down on the “founder mode” managerial approach he helped to popularize, emphasizing that the age of artificial intelligence has ushered in a need for a more nimble business hierarchy.

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