Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says you need to be "sh...
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Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says you need to be "shamelessly resourceful" to be successful in business. #airbnb #brianchesky #ceo #airbnbbusiness #advice #leadershipadvice #leadership #success #successstory #founder #founderstory #successtips #Fortune #FortuneGlobalForum

1:15 Jun 08, 2025 59,200 3,699
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The thing I found is you have to be shameless. That there are very few people in the world that will say, I don't want to help you, I don't want to talk to you. And I think that's a great honor to be able to pass something along because I think everyone here that was successful is successful because somebody helped them. And I think that we all feel something internal that we want to be able to give back and help others. And so I was just maybe more shameless than others because I think a lot of people just feel like, I just don't feel like I should bother that person. So who are the kinds of people you bothered? Well, the very first mentors I had were Michael Seibel. He was a co-founder of what became Social Cam and Twitch. And then Paul Graham. And then my investors, I know Mark Andreessen was on stage and Reid Hoffman and some people, Sequoia, Alfred Lin and others. And then I started moving to some other people that weren't investors. I mean, Sheryl Sandberg was an important mentor in me helping set up our international expansion, our offices in Dublin. John Donahoe, the CEO of eBay. George Tenet became an important mentor. Jonathan Ive, who really helped me think very deeply about design. And I thought I knew about design, but not until I met him that I really think that through. So I've always, and the thing I've told people in our company now is once you get to a certain level of success, you have the ability to meet and talk to anybody. So you should be shamelessly resourceful.

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