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The Jordan Harbinger Show

566: Brian Chesky | Lessons Airbnb Learned to Survive the Pandemic

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Social Sciences, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Talk Radio, Business, Science, Education

4.812.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2021

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky joins us to discuss what the company learned while surviving the trials of the pandemic and what's in store for the future.

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Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger Show.

0:03.1

And we realize what if we sold collectible breakfast cereal?

0:06.8

Probably after midnight, we're fairly desperate,

0:09.6

tens of thousand dollars in credit card debt,

0:11.4

the desperation creates creativity.

0:13.3

And there was a lot of Barack Obama theme,

0:15.1

member Belia. We're going to get on this trend.

0:17.8

We call General Mills, we say we've got this incredible idea

0:21.5

for John McCain, Barack Obama theme cereal.

0:24.4

And like all of a sudden I hear the dial tone, like it's not working.

0:27.7

My co-founder Joe finds an alumni my college

0:31.3

who's got a small print shop.

0:33.0

He doesn't even make cereal boxes, but he does like oversized prints.

0:36.8

He made up selling over 30,000 dollars cereal boxes.

0:40.4

And that's actually how we fund to the company.

0:42.4

We actually fund to the company selling collectible breakfast cereal.

0:45.3

At that point we said we're basically cereal entrepreneurs.

0:52.0

Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger.

0:54.0

On the Jordan Harbinger Show, we decode the stories,

0:56.3

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0:59.0

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1:02.0

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