Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on what founder mode really means

2210.756 - 2229.341 Nilay Patel

The last time you were on the show, you described re-orging Airbnb. You restructured the company. You went on to this roadmap where you ship twice a year in big deliveries. And you said, I got rid of all of these middle managers. Yes. And I'm the product manager and everyone rolls up to me. And I thought, oh, this is a cheap product officer. Cheap product officer. And I thought, this is great.