Brian Chesky — Founder Mode & AI Founder Mode Operating Memory

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  "name": "chesky",
  "title": "Brian Chesky \u2014 Founder Mode & AI Founder Mode Operating Memory",
  "description": "Brian Chesky is the CEO of Airbnb, who coined Founder Mode and rebuilt a $100B company after COVID destroyed 80% of its revenue overnight. This pack distills his operating playbook \u2014 CEO reviews, functional org structure, 10-star product design, and AI Founder Mode \u2014 from 11 sources. For founders and operators who want his leadership and product instincts running inside every session.",
  "tags": [
    "founder-mode",
    "airbnb",
    "product",
    "leadership",
    "hiring",
    "organization",
    "design",
    "ai-founder-mode"
  ],
  "cover_quote": "I had 7,000 employees. I didn't know what anyone was doing. I felt like I was in a car without a steering wheel.",
  "category": "founder",
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  "price_cents": 799,
  "version": {
    "number": 1,
    "label": "stage-1-distillation",
    "updated": "2026-05-17",
    "note": "11 T1 sources, ~119K words, Founder Mode canon + AI Founder Mode coinage focus"
  },
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  "created": "2026-05-17",
  "sources": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViqxJY_AG_w (Founder Mode: Brian Chesky at YC AI Startup School, 2025-08-22)",
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFOGlNL39xs (Founder Mode & The Art of Hiring \u2014 Wharton with Adam Grant, 2024-10-22)",
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eURcW5_uS60 (How Brian Chesky Is Redesigning Airbnb for the AI Era \u2014 Invest Like the Best, 2026-05-05)",
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ef0juAMqoE (Brian Chesky's new playbook \u2014 Lex Fridman #404, 2023-11-12)",
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6h_EDcj12k (Designing a 10-star Experience \u2014 Stanford View From The Top, 2023-02-27)",
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYXrS7gmNtc (The Social Radars S2E1 \u2014 Chesky w/ Jessica Liv

# AMP Routing — chesky

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- operating-principles.md — core goals, worldview, leadership directives

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| Founder operating decisions, hire/fire, skip-levels, org structure, OKR skepticism, AI-era founder operating | founder-mode-philosophy.md |
| Writing, communication, rhetoric, hostile-interview moves, framing devices | voice-and-rhetoric.md |
| Leadership, pandemic-style crisis decisions, taste-as-decision-input | operating-principles.md + founder-mode-philosophy.md |
| Manager Mode contrast, MBA-playbook critique, civilizational claims | operating-principles.md + voice-and-rhetoric.md |
| Hospitality/design product philosophy, 10-star framework, taste | founder-mode-philosophy.md + voice-and-rhetoric.md |