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Airbnb is adding James Manyika, Google's "AI ambassador," to its board of directors, the company said Monday. Manyika's addition underscores CEO Brian Chesky's ambitions in artificial intelligence, which Chesky has said will radically change the Airbnb platform by 2024. As Google's head of Research, Technology and Society, Manyika reports to CEO Sundar Pichai and focuses on how tech affects user's daily lives. Increasingly, that encompasses the company's AI research and products. With Manyika on the board, Chesky gains a powerful voice that sits at the intersection of AI and society.
Persons: James Manyika, Brian Chesky's, Chesky, Sundar Pichai, Belinda Johnson Organizations: Research, Technology, Society, National AI Advisory, McKinsey & Company
That's according to Chesky, who told the story at a recent Stanford Graduate School of Business event. Months before Airbnb's scheduled initial public offering, business dropped 80% in eight weeks during Covid-19 lockdowns, Chesky told Stanford students. Today, Airbnb's market cap is $75.49 billion, and Chesky's net worth is $9.3 billion, according to Forbes. "I never focused on trying to make a lot of money," Chesky said. DON'T MISS: Want to be smarter and more successful with your money, work & life?
Sugar-Carlsgaard is the senior executive assistant to the cofounder and CEO of Airbnb. She was headhunted to join Airbnb as the senior-executive assistant to Chesky, the CEO, in 2019, and she describes the company as "captivating." Before Sugar-Carlsgaard started, Chesky's team was beginning to transition into having "a lot of eyes" on them as Airbnb grew bigger. It's the way Airbnb functions, she said. Breaking into Big Tech was about "trusting myself and being able to sell myself and my experiences," she said.
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky has listed a bedroom in his San Francisco home on the platform. The video shows Chesky walking down a flight of stairs with his dog and taking photos of a living room and the bedroom he is listing. There's a lot of fun things we'll do," Chesky told CBS. However, the room already booked out till March 2023, an Airbnb spokesperson told Insider. Chesky's room listing shows a large bed — queen size "with a real mattress," per the listing — two closets, a desk, and an armchair set against the backdrop of a world map.
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