Brian Chesky warns pure people managers and rigid workers will not survive AI

3 articles · Updated · Fortune · May 7

On the Invest Like The Best podcast, the Airbnb chief said managers must become hybrid leaders and individual contributors tied to the work itself.
Chesky argued AI is easy to learn with a growth mindset, but workers who avoid change risk being displaced by colleagues who use the tools effectively.
He cast AI as a business necessity for Airbnb, echoing warnings from leaders at Nvidia, Netflix, Anthropic and Microsoft that most jobs will be reshaped.

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