Co-founder and chief executive of Airbnb. He co-founded the company in 2007 at the age of 26, having recently graduated from design school. Paul Graham, a renowned startup investor, used Mr Chesky's hands-on management approach to illustrate what he termed "founder mode"—a leadership style characterised by maintaining tight control of decisions, being steeped in the details and keeping headcount as low as possible. He is friends with Sam Altman of OpenAI.
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