Airbnb CEO: "The future belongs to whoever wants to go there first" - Fortune Global Forum - video Dailymotion

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“Always be the first to adopt a new platform, never be the last.“⁠ ⁠⁠ At the 2015 Fortune Global Forum, Chesky told the audience that the “future belongs to whoever wants to go there first.“⁠ ⁠⁠ This year, the Fortune Global Forum will convene October 26–27 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to explore the strategies that will define the next era of business growth.⁠

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00:00Every CEO here is whatever you want to call, you can disrupt or whatever you want,

00:05is or was at some time a disruptor. I have a culture internally which is to say, always be

00:09the first to adopt a new platform, never be the last. The people that are the last to adopt new

00:14platform, there's no room on the platform for you. We were pretty late to launch an iPad app,

00:17we didn't do it for a couple of years. The team had all these reasons why we had to be focused

00:21and eventually we got the iPad app out but then we also developed a watch app and a TV app for

00:25Apple TV and we were one of the launch partners. And the team internally was like, why should we

00:28spend all of our development resources on these two applications that so few people are using?

00:33We have tens of millions of people over here using a website or using a phone. Why aren't we

00:38developing all our resources there? And if you're focused on today, you're going to focus on your

00:42core. The good news is that even like the future belongs to nobody. The future belongs to whoever

00:49wants to go there first.

Airbnb CEO: "The future belongs to whoever wants to go there first" - Fortune Global Forum

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