566: Brian Chesky | Lessons Airbnb Learned to Survive the Pandemic
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2021
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Brian Chesky (@bchesky) is co-founder and CEO of the peer-to-peer lodging service Airbnb, named as one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2015.
What We Discuss with Brian Chesky:- How Airbnb not only survived the pandemic after losing 80 percent of its business during the first eight weeks, but is now thriving like never before.
- Why a company that still conducts itself like a startup is better poised to withstand and grow from business crises than the behemoths who have everything to lose.
- What was going through Brian's head when he got the news on live television that Airbnb shares were trading at twice their IPO price.
- How does a company leader become successful without losing their mind along the way?
- What Brian sees for the future of travel, and how it's changed as a direct result of the pandemic.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
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