How Airbnb is led by design (and why its genius)

👋 Hello! Welcome to this week’s ADPList Newsletter, a weekly advice column. Each Tuesday, we tackle design, building products, and accelerating careers. We’re looking for sponsors. If you’re interested to support our newsletter to advertise, let’s chat here. Pledge your support Hi fellow readers! First, I want to address the elephant in the room 🐘 — 54%~ of you gave me a good FOMO for missing out on #Config2023; I hope you enjoyed yourselves in person or virtually. Where was I? Well, I was serving in the army in Singapore (an annual exercise training). A different type of fun for a founder/designer if you ask me. This week, I want to talk about Brian Chesky. He’s the Co-Founder, and CEO of Airbnb; he also is a designer, who graduated from RISD. One thing that still surprises me is that Brian is the only Designer-CEO in the entire Fortune 500 Companies CEO. Brian Chesky spoke at Config 2023 on what it means to be a design-led company. In 2008, when Airbnb was founded, it was crazy to

👋 Hello! Welcome to this week’s ADPList Newsletter, a weekly advice column. Each Tuesday, we tackle design, building products, and accelerating careers. We’re looking for sponsors. If you’re interested to support our newsletter to advertise, let’s chat here. Pledge your support Hi fellow readers! First, I want to address the elephant in the room 🐘 — 54%~ of you gave me a good FOMO for missing out on #Config2023; I hope you enjoyed yourselves in person or virtually. Where was I? Well, I was serving in the army in Singapore (an annual exercise training). A different type of fun for a founder/d