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Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says he spends three hours a day on recruitment—and if his hiring managers don’t like his input, he tells them to leave

'I probably spend three hours a day recruiting,' Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says. And he admits he stole the idea from his friend, ChatGPT boss Sam Altman.
Airbnb’s CEO Brian Chesky doesn’t think hiring is just HR’s job. Despite being very busy running the $98 billion rental company and managing over 8,200 employees, he sets hours aside daily to recruiting. And if his managers don’t want him that involved in their hiring decisions, his advice is blunt: leave. “I probably spend three hours a day recruiting,” Chesky recently told Time. It sounds like a lot of time for a handful of top hires. But…
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