Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on why he's deep in the product details
Obsession over small details is something I look for in entrepreneurs and product leaders. Such obsession means that the founder also sees her business as art. When I first met media entrepreneur Jon Steinberg, the former president of BuzzFeed and founder and CEO of the modern financial news network Cheddar, I was awestruck by his obsessions. Stein
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Airbnb wants its leaders to be more than managers, they want them to be creators. But it results in a much more top-down company.
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We build Plain as a product-centric company, where everyone is close to our customers. 👇 | Simon Rohrbach posted on the topic | LinkedIn
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When your team knows too much about you as a person, not just you as a CEO, they start dissecting your personal life to try to understand your decisions. Your motivations. Your ways of thinking. That’s not only a distracting waste of time, it’s counterproductive. When you explain why you’re doing something, it should be all about the customers, not
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