Brian Chesky Says Big Things Are Coming for Airbnb in 2025

Big changes could be coming to Airbnb next year. In a conversation at WIRED's Big Interview even in San Francisco on Tuesday, the company's cofounder and CEO Brian Chesky told global editorial director Katie Drummond that he hopes that, in 2025, "people say'that was one of the biggest reinventions of a company in recent memory.'" Though Chesky kept details scant, he did say that the company hopes to reimagine its Experiences section, which he says consumers really like but that he doesn't think has caught on as much as it could. The move seems to be an extension of Chesky's belief in the value of physical experiences and physical community, which he still thinks trump most digital experiences, even in the age of AI. In an effort to prove that, even two years into the AI revolution, fundamentally very little has been changed for most people, Chesky challenged the room to look at the apps on their phone home screens and think how much any of them have been substantially changed by generative AI.