# Professor Arun Sundararajan on Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky's business strategy

1 Faculty News August 19, 2015 ![USA Today logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_027308.jpg?itok=crstnihK)>

Excerpt from [USA Today](http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/08/19/airbnb-ceo-brian-chesky-change-agents-company-targets-new-growth-opportunities/31888851/) -- "'It's almost like he's designing what a great company should look and operate like, as opposed to just gunning for profits at all costs,' says [Sundararajan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan), who teaches business at New York University. 'His philosophy seems to be guided by how to build another Facebook or Google.'"

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