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Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky

The David Rubenstein Show

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What's the Difference Between the Pandemic and Covet?

When you went public in december 20 20, you price ip, or the underwriters did, at half of the price that ultimately ended up that day. So some people might say you left 23 or four billion dollars on the table. We came back from 20 19 as a somewhere between 30 to forty billion dollar valuation. At the depth of the pandemic, our valuation was below 18 billion dollars. And i think part of the reason our stock popped was, i believe we had hundreds of thousands of people in retail trying to buy our stock.

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