“Everything just went crazy for me. Brian was the person who would just sit down with me, for like three hours every other week, and give me a list and say, ‘Here’s the five things you got to do now. Here’s where you’re behind, here’s what you’re screwing up, here’s what you got to proactively do, here’s what you got to think about’,” he said.

ChatGPT exceeded 1 million users five days after it was launched to the public. In January 2023, the platform had 100 million monthly active users, making it the fastest-growing consumer application ever.

While the AI company grew, Sam Altman said that Brian Chesky became a close confidant. He was “almost always right,” Sam Altman said, adding, “I learned to just always shut up and follow the advice.”

Brian Chesky instructed me on who to hire and how to “map” out the company’s strategy and he recently pointed out that OpenAI was “probably not thinking enough about” the political consequences of the company’s generative AI technology, Sam Altman said.