“The companies I admire are the companies that pursue their own mission not the mission of their parent company. Build for the long term. Everything we’ve built would be undermined by being acquired.” — Airbnb’s Brian Chesky in conversation with Vox Media’s Kara Swisher on stage at the Code Conference
It is decidedly more fun to attend tech conferences when you are not invited. I learned this yesterday when I spirited down from San Francisco to the Terrenea Rancho Palos Verdes outside LA, and spent the next twelve hours wandering the inner sancta of Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg’s exclusive Code Conference without credentials.