If you were 26 years old today in the AI era instead of 2008, what kinds of businesses would you build?
Co-founder & CEO at Airbnb
I would be thrilled to start today because the creation tools are infinitely more capable than what we had in the mobile era. I am fascinated by the intersection of AI with personalized education, rich visual storytelling, and healthcare. I would actively avoid building conversational text chatbots. Trying to squeeze the most transformative technology in human history into a text messaging window is like strapping a jet engine onto a bicycle. The next generation of trillion-dollar companies will design rich, visual, multimodal interfaces that mirror how human beings naturally perceive the world.
This answer is part of a full interview with Brian Chesky, Co-founder & CEO at Airbnb.
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