Leader's Playbook
S1 E5 | Inside Airbnb
0h 22m|Talk, Bus./financial|CNBC|2026
In this interview with CEO Brian Chesky, CNBC's Julia Boorstin explores Chesky's leadership playbook to understand the strategies that helped him build a multi-billion-dollar empire by convincing people to open their homes to strangers and let them sleep in their beds; the conversation covers it all from the early days when Chesky hosted guests on an air mattress for extra cash to the Airbnb horror story that years later tested his leadership and threatened the future of the business.