{"id":5479,"date":"2026-09-28T08:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T08:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=5479"},"modified":"2026-09-28T08:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T08:34:08","slug":"airbnb-ceo-brian-chesky-spends-3-hours-a-day-recruiting-he-tells-managers-who-dont-like-it-to-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=5479","title":{"rendered":"Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky spends 3 hours a day recruiting\u2014he tells managers who don&#8217;t like it to leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2276716878-e1790086770473.jpg?w=2048\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Airbnb\u2019s CEO Brian Chesky doesn\u2019t think hiring is just HR\u2019s job. Despite being very busy running the $98 billion rental company and managing over 8,200 employees, he sets hours aside daily to recruiting. And if his managers don\u2019t want him that involved in their hiring decisions, his advice is blunt: leave.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI probably spend three hours a day recruiting,\u201d Chesky recently told <em>Time<\/em>. It sounds like a lot of time for a handful of top hires. But that\u2019s because he no longer just approves Airbnb\u2019s executive roles. Now, he wants to be involved with who his executives hire, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI treat myself as the co-hiring manager for all my directs directs,\u201d he explained, while adding that it\u2019s not because his senior leadership team aren\u2019t effective at hiring and need micromanaging.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In fact, he used to leave hiring decisions entirely up to those below him\u2014until it dawned on him that every one of those hires could one day be sitting in his own leadership team\u2019s seats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe both have to agree to the person because when my exec retires, naturally they\u2019ll be looking at their person under them as their successor,\u201d he added. \u201cIf it\u2019s their person, not your person, they may not be philosophically aligned with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And if Chesky\u2019s reports don\u2019t like him meddling in their hiring decisions? \u201cIf that creates tension, then I\u2019m going to tell them leave the company,\u201d he said. \u201cIf somebody needs \u2018authority\u2019 to operate in a huge amount of space separate from me, then I tell them this is not the right company for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chesky admits he stole the hiring idea from OpenAI boss Sam Altman<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chesky wasn\u2019t always this hands-on. In fact, he said that hiring barely registered as a priority for him until OpenAI\u2019s co-founder and CEO Sam Altman changed his mind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe said hiring should be 50% of your job,\u201d Chesky recalled. \u201cDuring the pre-launch of ChatGPT, he told me that\u2019s what he did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt never was 50 of my job. It wasn\u2019t even 10% of my job, and so I never really spent enough time hiring, and I never really made it a high enough priority,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chesky and Altman\u2019s friendship goes back nearly two decades, to 2006, when Altman mentored Chesky through startup accelerator Y Combinator. The relationship has stayed close ever since. Altman has previously said he\u00a0leaned heavily\u00a0on Chesky after ChatGPT became a global phenomenon, and\u00a0again during his brief ousting from OpenAI in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And while Chesky said he\u2019s not sure on whether Altman\u2019s hiring philosophy has changed since OpenAI has grown from a scrappy startup to a $852 billion tech giant with over 4,500 employer, it\u2019s reshaped how he runs Airbnb.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think I learned the hard way that I didn\u2019t spend enough time on hiring, and so I now think it\u2019s the number one priority inside the company for me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe basic philosophy is we\u2019re not trying to hire for the company of today; we\u2019re trying to hire for the company of tomorrow,\u201d Chesky added. \u201cWe want you to come here to build the company of tomorrow\u2026 Somebody has to be there to sell the dream of who we\u2019re going to be tomorrow, and I think that person\u2019s the founder.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chesky isn\u2019t the only CEO rewriting the rules on hiring: Apple\u2019s Steve Jobs had a \u2018beer test\u2019 and Bolt CEO fired HR<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chesky\u2019s hands-on approach is unusual given Airbnb\u2019s size, but he\u2019s certainly not alone; and at such senior levels, some executives have even developed tests to weed out the best of the best.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twilio\u2019s CEO Khozema Shipchandler told <em>Fortune<\/em> that he interviews candidates for 45 minutes over dinner and if they say \u201cI\u201d too much or don\u2019t ask any questions, that\u2019s a red flag. Bupa\u2019s $25 billion CEO, meanwhile, thinks one-hour interviews are a waste of time\u2014he puts candidates through six hours of tests instead, and watches to see if they order wine at lunch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Netskope\u2019s $5 billion CEO Sanjay Beri has admitted he secretly calls references candidates never listed to get an honest take on a potential new hire\u2019s personality\u2014and he\u2019ll even ask coworkers they clashed with what they really think of the candidate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The late Steve Jobs famously used a \u201cbeer test\u201d to judge candidates at Apple. One CEO has even\u00a0given candidates live feedback mid-interview, specifically to see whether they freeze up or get offended. Meanwhile, an IBM exec has taken to asking every candidate a very timely make-or-break question: do you think we\u2019re in an AI bubble?<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then there\u2019s Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow, who took things even further than Chesky. Rather than getting more involved in hiring, he simply cut the entire HR department. He told\u00a0Fortune\u00a0that the department meant to help with staffing was actually just creating more red tape and \u201cproblems that didn\u2019t exist\u2026 Those problems disappeared when I let them go.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Airbnb #CEO #Brian #Chesky #spends #hours #day #recruitinghe #tells #managers #dont #leave<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airbnb\u2019s CEO Brian Chesky does&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1487,2364,4931,283,494,8561,1405,1421,5590,2268,2793,1259,3463,8559,6148,537,215,2679,155,480,8560,8562,7904,3566,496,3645,3565,4527,3567,2063],"class_list":["post-5479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance-news","tag-airbnb","tag-brian","tag-brian-chesky","tag-ceo","tag-chatgpt","tag-chesky","tag-chief-executive-officer-ceo","tag-day","tag-day-in-the-life-of-a-ceo","tag-dont","tag-employment","tag-hiring","tag-hours","tag-hr","tag-interview","tag-jobs","tag-leave","tag-management","tag-managers","tag-openai","tag-recruiters","tag-recruitinghe","tag-recruitment","tag-retention","tag-sam-altman","tag-spends","tag-talent-acquisition","tag-tells","tag-the-interview-playbook","tag-view-from-the-c-suite"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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