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He is on Y Combinator’s board og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Airbnb’s CEO says nobody builds AI for normal people. He is on Y Combinator’s board **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky argues that almost all AI investment is enterprise-focused, citing his own Y Combinator board data that 159 of 175 startups in the latest batch were enterprise rather than consumer. He calls this a failure of nerve among founders and predicts a consumer AI renaissance in two to three years, pointing to on-demand AI doctors as an example. The piece pushes back, noting enterprise wins because of simple economics (predictable revenue, tolerant buyers) rather than fear, and highlights that Airbnb's own AI wins are cost-cutting internal tools, not consumer products. Chesky also confirmed for the first time that Airbnb has an undisclosed AI lab, declined to elaborate, and detailed plans to expand Airbnb into a travel super app with rental cars and hotels within 12-18 months. Pew polling showing 40% of US adults expect AI to have a negative societal impact over 20 years (versus 16% positive) is cited as support for his narrative concern. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What percentage of the latest Y Combinator batch were enterprise startups versus consumer startups? 159 of 175 companies in Y Combinator's most recent batch were enterprise-focused rather than consumer-focused, according to a figure Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky cited himself. Chesky, who sits on Y Combinator's board, used this roughly 90% enterprise share as evidence that founders are avoiding consumer AI products in favor of safer, revenue-reliable enterprise contracts. _daily.dev surfaces the enterprise-versus-consumer AI debate for founders weighing where to build next._ ### What do Americans actually think about AI's long-term impact on society? Pew Research found in June that 40% of US adults expect AI's effect on society over the next 20 years to be negative, compared with only 16% who expect a positive effect, a two-to-one deficit. This gap exists despite the AI industry spending hundreds of billions of dollars on development, and it underlies arguments that the industry has a public trust and narrative problem. _developers tracking public sentiment on AI can follow polling data like this via daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Airbnb says AI now writes 60% of its new code](https://daily.dev/posts/airbnb-says-ai-now-writes-60-of-its-new-code-w24zdu6nr) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#startup](https://daily.dev/tags/startup), [#claude-code](https://daily.dev/tags/claude-code), [#y-combinator](https://daily.dev/tags/y-combinator) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/airbnb-s-ceo-says-nobody-builds-ai-for-normal-people-he-is-on-y-combinator-s-board-cjw9v4ueq) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Airbnb’s CEO says nobody builds AI for normal people. 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