Are You Giving Back to the World?

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Lorning: My advice to other founders or people that i've spoken to of the years is to find a natural extension of the corp business as a way to give back. Every company has a super power of some kind, just like Facebook and apple have theirs. I think finding the vendiagram of what it is that you're really good as a company with what's needed most in the world is the answer to that question. You are personally engaged and animated by the plight of refuge ai heard that your commitments sould have deepened after a research trip you took to africa.

Airbnb’s charitable arm, Airbnb.org, has committed to offer free, temporary housing for up to 100,000 refugees fleeing Ukraine. Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia joins Rapid Response to discuss how the company is deploying business tools for humanitarian benefit. He also shares how Airbnb’s platform has become a surprising tool to transfer money directly to individual Ukrainians, already generating $15 million. Along with co-founders Brian Chesky and Nate Blecharczyk, Joe is a fierce believer that companies should be responsible to “participate in the world around us” and the importance, as leaders, to ask: What would make us proud?

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