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Andrew S. Grove

Fortune identifies Andy Grove's High Output Management as Chesky's primary book source on management technique.

Walter Isaacson

Same Fortune profile names Steve Jobs alongside Walt Disney as the biographies Chesky returned to in order to learn business at scale.

Neal Gabler

Fortune's long-form profile of Chesky documents how he studied biographies of business heroes such as Walt Disney and Steve Jobs as his way of fast-forwarding to the right sources on company-building.