Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky's 'Founder Mode' speech at Y Combinator was the best ever

Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham says Airbnb cofounder Brian Chesky's talk was best talk he's ever heard.

Chesky said he cast out professional fakers and let them drive the company into the ground.

Graham says there are two types of executives, founders and managers, and the latter are mostly frauds.

Aaron Carroll : Not everyone is Brian Chesky , and no one is like Steve Jobs .

Carroll: The vast majority of companies never take off, and instead fade into ignominy.

He says it's fun to talk about founder mode, maybe for the same reason that some of us read Ben Horowitz ’s founder-porn texts with our noses pressed to the window. Carroll: Founder mode really applies only to the most exceptional founders, the ones Steve Jobs once described as “the crazy ones.

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