{"id":178472,"date":"2023-12-17T00:23:27","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T06:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/airbnb-boss-called-his-ceo-network-asking-if-they-could-hire-any-of-the-1900-staff-he-laid-off"},"modified":"2023-12-17T00:23:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T06:23:27","slug":"airbnb-boss-called-his-ceo-network-asking-if-they-could-hire-any-of-the-1900-staff-he-laid-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/airbnb-boss-called-his-ceo-network-asking-if-they-could-hire-any-of-the-1900-staff-he-laid-off","title":{"rendered":"Airbnb boss called his CEO network asking if they could hire any of the 1,900 staff he laid off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ia6Di_ytiSE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As a result, he\u2019s built a network of peers who can relate to his challenges, name-dropping <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/company\/spotify\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" class=\"\">Spotify<\/a> CEO Daniel Ek, who had appeared on the same podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2023\/09\/28\/spotify-ceo-daniel-ek-platform-terrible-idea-lost-hair-gained-30lbs-success\/?utm_source=search&utm_medium=suggested_search&utm_campaign=search_link_clicks\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" class=\"\">just a few weeks before<\/a>, as one of them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDaniel Ek doesn\u2019t know the Brian before Airbnb,\u201d Chesky explained. \u201cSo maybe he doesn\u2019t know \u2018the real me\u2019\u2026but he does know a different \u2018real me\u2019 that my childhood friends can\u2019t know, because high school and college friends can\u2019t possibly know what it\u2019s like for me to go through what I\u2019m going through.<\/p>\n<p>I can tell it to them, and they can have compassion, but they can\u2019t possibly know what I\u2019m talking about. But Daniel can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a result, he\u2019s built a network of peers who can relate to his challenges, name-dropping Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, who had appeared on the same podcast just a few weeks before, as one of them. \u201cDaniel Ek doesn\u2019t know the Brian before Airbnb,\u201d Chesky explained. \u201cSo maybe he doesn\u2019t know \u2018the real me\u2019\u2026but he [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}