AirBnb's Brian Chesky:  "We're the David to the hotel industry Goliath"

AirBnb's Brian Chesky: "We're the David to the hotel industry Goliath"

The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Brian Chesky, founder of Airbnb, to talk about the home-sharing giant’s tenth birthday (3:00) aiming for a billion guests (4:30), how he plans to grow without destroying communities (7:30), growing up in New York (13:30), convincing Y Combinator to invest $20,000 (16:00), doing 'an Amazon' (18:00), creating an airline (20:15), tech’s existential crisis (22:00), the limitations of algorithms (24:45), not floating on the stock market (26:15), bringing in $1bn each quarter (27:00), his worst day of work (28:45), giving away most of his money (32:15), stepping into controversies (35:00), the need for Silicon Valley to take responsibility (36:30), taxes (37:15), and fending off attacks from the hotel industry (39:30).

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Avsnitt(450)

Forget your employees – how hard is your AI agent working?

Forget your employees – how hard is your AI agent working?

A new trend is emerging in Silicon Valley – engineers are using more and more of AI agents to do their jobs. At some companies like Meta, AI usage is reportedly being linked to performance. But it’s a...

27 Mars 42min

Will this AI actress be the next Oscar winner?

Will this AI actress be the next Oscar winner?

Conan O’Brien joked at the Oscars that he might be the last human to host the Academy Awards. It got Danny and Katie thinking about AI's influence on the creative industry – from Hollywood, podcasting...

20 Mars 41min

The $14 billion Nscale story and how founders succeed in Silicon Valley

The $14 billion Nscale story and how founders succeed in Silicon Valley

British AI data-center company NScale has hit a $14.6 billion valuation after raising another $2 billion but its rapid rise is raising eyebrows. Danny Fortson and Katie Prescott examine the meteoric s...

13 Mars 39min

Bonus episode: Will quantum computing change everything?

Bonus episode: Will quantum computing change everything?

Quantum computing has been called the next big technological revolution, potentially as transformative as AI. Governments are investing billions, banks are already experimenting with the technology, a...

9 Mars 30min

Anthropic vs Pentagon: How AI is changing war

Anthropic vs Pentagon: How AI is changing war

An explosive fallout between AI giant Anthropic, OpenAI and the US Department of War has ignited a fierce debate in Silicon Valley about who gets to decide how artificial intelligence is used in defen...

6 Mars 39min

Inside Nvidia: The company powering the AI gold rush

Inside Nvidia: The company powering the AI gold rush

Do Nvidia’s latest results confirm a tech boom or signal the makings of a bubble? Danny Fortson and Katie Prescott ask how a once-niche graphics chipmaker ended up at the centre of global tech, geopol...

27 Feb 35min

Bonus episode: Agentic AI explained – The next phase of artificial intelligence

Bonus episode: Agentic AI explained – The next phase of artificial intelligence

This episode of The Times Tech podcast is sponsored by PwC.Artificial intelligence is entering a new phase. It’s no longer just about chatbots generating text or analysing data. The next frontier is a...

23 Feb 26min

AI safety meets OpenClaw – what India’s AI summit tells us

AI safety meets OpenClaw – what India’s AI summit tells us

As world leaders and tech bosses gather for India’s AI Impact Summit, Danny Fortson and Mark Sellman ask if these global summits are shaping AI or struggling to keep up with it? They also hear from Ca...

20 Feb 39min

Populärt inom Business & ekonomi

framgangspodden
varvet
badfluence
rss-jossan-nina
rss-borsens-finest
rss-svart-marknad
avanzapodden
uppgang-och-fall
svd-tech-brief
rss-dagen-med-di
fill-or-kill
borsmorgon
lastbilspodden
affarsvarlden
rss-inga-dumma-fragor-om-pengar
tabberaset
kapitalet-en-podd-om-ekonomi
bathina-en-podcast
rss-den-nya-ekonomin
bilar-med-sladd