Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb, is quite vocal about his philosophy on lean, high-performing teams as the company navigates post-pandemic growth and efficiency pressures. In a discussion, Chesky outlined a counterintuitive perspective on hiring that challenges conventional wisdom about team building and organizational growth. A players hire A players, B players hire C players. I would like to amend it: B players hire lots of C players. The emphasis on elite, small teams mirrors practices at companies like Apple under Steve Jobs, who famously believed that small teams of exceptional people could outperform much larger groups of average performers.