Aanntis yesterday you turned an astonishing quarter, as opposed to a lot of other companywowere seeing some trouble. Really strong after, i think it was a year ago we did an interview, or maybe a year and a half ago, you laid off 19 hundred employees,. made a decision to re focus tho local travel. really difficult, exestential time for your company. And all of a sudden life came at us fast. I remember making a kind of naive statement like, waw, if this thing spread beyond china, woud be really bad. Our whole life is going n one direction. And we lose 80 % of our business in eight weeks. Then suddenly
Kara and Scott chat with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky about the future of the travel industry, housing, workplace culture, human interaction, and why the pandemic was the “ultimate growing-up experience” for business founders. Plus, he tells the audience all about his stay at a “themed fairytale princess Cinderella cottage.”
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