and right, and there was an entire culture to build, with everyone looking directly to Chesky for vision and direction. The company needed him to be a CEO immediately; it couldn’t wait for him to get there. “There is basically no time for a learning curve,” Chesky says, teeing up another historic-figure paraphrase. “It’s kind of like the old Robert McNamara saying — there’s no learning curve for people who are in war or in start-ups.”
