Brian Chesky

You've got to be on the field with them, and you've got to be leading from example.

I think leadership's from the front, not from the back, and so these are just some of the things we do, and I think

AI is going to create the equivalent of an AI founder mode, which is now you've got to be even more hands-on.

I don't think in the era of AI there should be any pure people managers because you're so close to the details, to the data, that everyone has the opportunity to be hands-on.

It's hard to imagine only managing people and not agents.

I think this hands-on approach is for everyone inside of a company.

Yeah, and it's slightly scary because I think that I've told, I had a meeting with our team recently.

I said the 26-year-old me and Joe and Nate could F us up.

if we wanted to.

Hey, I'm paranoid.

I think that if Airbnb sits still, I think a different group of

20 or 30 year olds could also disrupt us.

And I think that's true of every one of us.

And maybe, by the way, maybe that's not true.

And maybe that's not reassuring, because we do have a brand that's a noun and a verb.

We've got a global network of facts.

I think it's actually hard to build a network.

That may not be possible.

But the software and the app,

I told our team, we can't sit still.