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Semafor Podcasts · 15 episodes with transcripts

When the business world moves, these are the leaders making the decisions that shape it. The CEO Signal is a new show hosted by Penny Pritzker — investor, business builder, and former U.S. Secretary of Commerce — and Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, Semafor’s CEO Editor.

Spoken has transcripts of 15 The CEO Signal episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 22, 2026.

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curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://spoken.md/podcasts/1885567552/episodes \
  | jq -r '.episodes[] | "\(.id) \(.title)"' \
  | while IFS=' ' read -r id title; do
      slug=$(echo "$title" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr -cs 'a-z0-9' '-' | sed 's/-*$//')
      [ -f "${id}-${slug}.md" ] && continue
      curl -sf -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
        -o "${id}-${slug}.md" \
        https://spoken.md/transcripts/$id || rm -f "${id}-${slug}.md"
      sleep 0.34
    done

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Latest The CEO Signal transcripts

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on the founder’s role and bridging Silicon Valley’s AI divide

October 22, 2026

Brian Chesky (0:00)

And the problem is Silicon Valley's in a bubble, and society feels like AI's happening to them, not for them. But I've talked to AI leaders, and I say, do you talk to any normal people? I talked to one famous person, I won't mention who, and I said, do you talk to a regular person? He goes, yes, such and such. I'm…

And they're like, well, this and that. I'm like, that's your chef, you pay them. And I'm like, we need to talk to regular people that we don't pay. And what they're going to say is they feel like they're not a part of it, that it's happening to them, they don't understand it. And I think that is very, very scary. So…

Penny Pritzker (0:44)

Today on The CEO Signal, we're talking to Brian Chesky, co-founder and CEO of Airbnb.

Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson (0:52)

Chesky started Airbnb almost 20 years ago with a pretty simple idea, make it easy for travelers to stay in other people's homes.

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