“What if design just ran the boardroom?”
In this episode of The CEO Signal, @Airbnb CEO @bchesky explains how his training as an industrial designer shapes his unconventional approach to running the company. He describes Airbnb as a three-dimensional model in his head and explains why he remains so personally involved in recruiting and organizational decisions.
“The founder is the keeper of the dream,” he says.
On artificial intelligence, Chesky warns that Silicon Valley is losing touch with the people whose lives its technologies will transform.
“Society feels like AI is happening to them, not for them,” he says. Chesky believes the industry needs bridge builders to reconnect with people beyond the Silicon Valley bubble. And he thinks he could help.
Listen to the full interview on Future Proof wherever you get your podcasts, or watch it on YouTube. youtu.be/CUgS4y4XiNY
"Alignment seems elusive, and even mechanistic understanding is tough."
@Microsoft CEO @satyanadella talks to @ReedAlbergotti about treating AI models as "insider threats."
Make America Healthy Again, the movement Trump spent years cultivating, is showing signs of splintering, argues @davidalim.
Read his full view:
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has lost battles over pesticides, failed to codify food safety efforts into durable regulations, and faced legal hurdles in his bid to reshape federal vaccine policy. Can RFK Jr. reconsolidate the MAHA voters he helped deliver to Trump in a new bid for 2028?
Read more from @davidalim: semafor.com/article/10/22/20…
Mattel has thwarted restive shareholders by inviting one of them into the boardroom.
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🟡 NEW: Survey finds that paid parental leave doesn't strain most employers.
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Employers might be overestimating the downsides of offering paid parental leave and underestimating the costs of losing employees by foregoing it, argues economist Emily Oster in a new report.
Read more from @davidalim: semafor.com/article/10/22/20…
Meta’s new class of nonvoting stock lets Zuckerberg fund AI without losing control, argues Liz Hoffman.
Read her full view:
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Read the full scoop from @rogoswami in Semafor Business:
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Finance firms controlling over $5.8 trillion have established their first offices in the Gulf in the nearly eight months since the Iran war disrupted the region’s economies.
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Abu Dhabi — which fashions itself as the “capital of capital” — uses its wealth to attract foreign investors to the emirate, partnering with global firms on domestic deals and international ones. Mubadala has become the world’s most active sovereign wealth fund this year.
Read more from @MattMartin128: semafor.com/article/10/22/20…
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Wrote this take before their Wednesday debate - El-Sayed's using some Obama 2008 tactics to respond to Republicans, but Republicans don't campaign like John McCain anymore. No fear whatsoever of calling him a "jihadist" and terror candidate semafor.com/article/10/21/20…
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Gulf attracts global finance firms controlling $5.8 trillion to open their first regional office since the Iran war started, in a bet the Gulf economies continue to be a big source of cash. The vast majority of firms went to Abu Dhabi semafor.com/article/10/22/20…
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Everybody loves state capitalism, @Eleanor_Mueller reports semafor.com/article/10/21/20…
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NEW: It'd be legally and politically difficult to wind down the Trump administration's equity stakes — but don't expect Democrats to try.
Former administration officials floated using them to rein in AI; shrink defense spending; box out China; and more.
"We're through the looking glass," one told me. semafor.com/article/10/21/20…
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SIOUX CITY: GOP Rep. Ashley Hinson welcomes President Trump's visit to Iowa today -- but so does her Democratic Senate race opponent Josh Turek
“It’s good. … He needs to see what the policies, like the tariffs and the war in Iran, cuts to healthcare, have done to a state like Iowa," he said in an interview
I asked Hinson if there's any tension with Trump over her opposition to the Iran War and deals with Putin: “President Trump knows where I stand,” she told Semafor. “I nag him a lot to get priorities for us all the time.”
At an event on Tuesday in Des Moines, she disclosed that Trump recently called her right after she dropped off her kids: “Ashley, it’s your favorite president. How’s it looking, how are you feeling about the polls?”
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Washington won’t say what it wants on AGOA, says South Africa ambassador semafor.com/article/10/21/20…
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News: Elon Musk makes $1 billion investment in Ellison’s Skydance semafor.com/article/10/22/20…












