Executive Produced by Robert Downey Jr., Susan Downey, and Emily Barclay Ford for Team Downey and C13Originals, together with Josh McLaughlin for Wink Pictures and written, produced, and directed by Peabody-nominated C13Originals, a Cadence13 Studio. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said in a blog post Wednesday that the company is partnering with former Apple design chief Jony Ive. The Sunshine Place tells the mind-blowing, true-story of Synanon - one of America’s most cutting edge social experiments, turned into one of its most dangerous and violent cults - as it’s never been told before: by the people who lived it. Jony Ive led Apple’s design team from 1996 to 2019, playing a key role in product launches like the iMac, iPhone, and Apple Watch. Dederich, aka “Chuck,” would be the one to destroy it all, along with the lives of many of his followers and millions of dollars in assets. The man who made the miracle happen, Charles E. What started in a house on the beach, soon spread to compounds across the country. Before long, it would make an even bolder claim: It could cure any of your problems. Once called “the miracle on the beach,” Synanon began in the 1960s as an experimental rehab facility in Santa Monica, California with a radical claim: It could cure heroin addiction. Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone, and Andrew Marino, our research was done by Liz Lian. Zillow reportedly needs to sell 7,000 houses after it bought too manyĬity of New York and Airbnb Reach Settlement AgreementĪirbnb hosts discriminate against black guests based on names, study suggestsĭecoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Jony Ive is bringing his design talents to. Okay, Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb, here we go. Of course, I also had to ask about cryptocurrency and the metaverse - does Brian think we’re all going to be visiting virtual NFT museums on vacations in the future? You have to listen and find out. I asked Brian about that and about what it’s like to run a public company now - the transition from scrappy startup to public company engaged with regulators is a big one. Airbnb used to be the poster child for a tech company that showed up without permission and fought with regulators, but as the company has grown and the pandemic has changed things, it’s entered what is hopefully a more mature phase - it just came to a deal with New York City after ten years of argument. That’s very different from most other big companies, which have lots of divisions and overlapping lines of authority.Īnd Airbnb’s relationship to cities is changing as tourism changes. Airbnb is pretty much a single team, focused on a single product, and it all rolls up to Brian. Home rental company Airbnb Inc on Wednesday said it was hiring former Apple designer Jony Ive and his firm to design new Airbnb products and services under a multi-year deal. Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky prides himself on thinking very differently than other CEOs, and his answers to the Decoder questions about how he structures and manages his company were almost always the opposite of what I’m used to hearing on the show.

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