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Two weeks ago, a post by Paul Graham about unconventional company management sparked significant discussion in the Refactoring community. Initially skeptical, I shared my thoughts after reading the post multiple times. Graham's compelling question lingered: what if the common way to run companies isn't the best approach after all? Intrigued by this idea, I decided to delve deeper. I watched two insightful interviews with Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb, which I believe offer context to his remarks at the YC event mentioned by Graham: "Leading through uncertainty: A design-led company" (Config 2023) "Brian Chesky's new playbook" I recommend the first video for those short on time. After watching these interviews, I found Chesky's ideas resonating strongly with me. His core philosophy can be distilled to: "If you do what everyone else does, you'll get the same results everyone else gets." This approach seems to be working. Airbnb's impr...

A  post by Paul Graham caught a lot of attraction in the Refactoring community  a couple of weeks ago. I read the post a couple of times, and then rushed to share my thoughts (which I reproduce below). The essence (at the time) is that I was skeptical, even though I think Paul Graham's post asks a compelling question: what if the common way to run companies is not the best after all? Last week I finally had time to watch a couple appearances by Brian Chesky which I believe give an insight into what Brian Chesky might have have said at the YC event mentioned by PG, which is, AFAIU, not publicly available. For the record I watched these two: Leading through uncertainty: A design-led company - Brian Chesky (Config 2023 ) (my recommendation if you're short on time) Brian Chesky’s new playbook and I have to admit his ideas resonated a lot with me. Abstracting to the core I would say that Brian's approach can be summarized as ...