![]() “If you think about it, Airbnb is like a giant ship,” he says, holding up the napkin. I’ve just asked Chesky how his management style has evolved, and the boat is his answer. ![]() But the quality of the drawing is not the point. And, it must be said, for a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design it’s a rudimentary-looking vessel. After a moment of serious sketching, Chesky holds up the napkin to show me his picture: It’s a boat. With its wood-paneled walls, leather club chairs, and a model of a ship on the coffee table, the President’s Room retains the feel of the original executive quarters from 1917, when the building was built to house a battery factory. Other meeting spaces in the historic building, which the company moved to in 2013, are designed to replicate an Airbnb rental in Fiji or the war room from the movie Dr. We’re sitting in the President’s Room at Airbnb’s airy, ultra-chic headquarters in the SoMa neighborhood of San Francisco. How the home-sharing site’s co-founder hacked leadership and taught himself to be a world-class CEO.īrian Chesky is drawing intently on a napkin.
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