Airbnb CEO on Why AI Will Create a New Era of Consumer Products

About this episode

Brian Chesky discusses the future of AI in consumer products and Airbnb's growth strategies.

This is our full conversation with Brian Chesky, recorded live on TBPN. We discuss how Airbnb reaccelerated growth by rebuilding startup intensity and embracing “founder mode” leadership, why Chesky believes today’s AI chatbots are not the right interface for the future of travel and e-commerce, how Airbnb is using AI across the business with 60% of its code now written by AI, and why he believes the next major wave of AI innovation will come from immersive consumer products, visual interfaces, and agentic experiences rather than another wave of enterprise software. Sign up for TBPN’s daily newsletter at TBPN.com Follow TBPN: https://TBPN.com https://x.com/tbpn https://open.spotify.com/show/2L6WMqY3GUPCGBD0dX6p00?si=674252d53acf4231 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/technology-brothers/id1772360235 https://www.youtube.com/@TBPNLive

People in this episode

Hosts: John Coogan, Jordi Hays

Guest: Brian Chesky

Topics covered

• AI
• consumer products
• e-commerce
• Airbnb
• leadership
• technology

Keywords

• AI
• Airbnb
• consumer products
• e-commerce
• founder mode
• leadership
• technology

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Organizations: Airbnb, TBPN, Spotify, Apple, YouTube

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