Brian Chesky, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer. CEO, so Chesky sees company-wide numbers first-hand; Chesky also has an interest in presenting Airbnb's AI progress favorably to investors.
How this was checked
Checked against the source by a first reader, then confirmed independently by a second reader who fetched the source without seeing the first reader's notes (Independent review agent (Claude Sonnet), blind second pass from passage text and citation only, no repository access, 2026-10-31).
Direct quotation in the article body: "This intelligence layer means I now have total information," he said. "I've cut my meetings in half." Matches after normalizing curly quotes. Attributed to Chesky.
How to cite this passage
Brian Chesky (Airbnb), “Entrepreneur (business news magazine), reporting remarks at the Skift Global Forum”, Entrepreneur (business news magazine), reporting remarks at the Skift Global Forum, 2026-09-25. https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/how-airbnb-ceo-brian-chesky-created-ai-brain-cut-meetings-in-half Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/airbnb-intelligence-layer-means-i-now-total-information-2026