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Symbiosis of a Modern Elder & a Start-Up CEO


November 5, 2019
I loved spending nearly 90 minutes on stage with Brian Chesky at the Commonwealth Club almost exactly a year ago. It was a wonderful opportunity to show in public how we’ve operated in private over the past six and a half years. One of the things we discussed was the disadvantage of being a young entrepreneur. Brian suggests that...

having a Modern Elder by his side, with expertise in the industry that Airbnb was disrupting, widened his aperture with respect to understanding their business opportunity.

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