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

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 that’s because he no longer just approves Airbnb’s executive roles. Now, he wants to be involved with who his executives hire, too.

“I treat myself as the co-hiring manager for all my directs directs,” he explained, while adding that it’s not because his senior leadership team aren’t effective at hiring and need micromanaging. 

In fact, he used to leave hiring decisions entirely up to those below him—until it dawned on him that every one of those hires could one day be sitting in his own leadership team’s seats.

“We both have to agree to the person because when my exec retires, naturally they’ll be looking at their person under them as their successor,” he added. “If it’s their person, not your person, they may not be philosophically aligned with me.”

And if Chesky’s reports don’t like him meddling in........

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