Airbnb vs NYC | The Gathering Storm | 3

Business Wars

Wondery

History, Business, David Brown, Management

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

By 2017, Airbnb's legal troubles are snowballing so fast, it’s not clear whether it will survive. But there’s another gathering storm that nobody could have forecast – the COVID-19 pandemic. And it will make a direct hit on Airbnb.

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0:25.2	May 2017 in the East Village Manhattan.
0:29.0	A smartly dressed couple ducks into a building to escape the pounding rain.
0:34.0	They wheel suitcases down the narrow, brightly lit corridor of an apartment building, checking
0:38.7	apartment numbers as they go.
0:41.0	Here we are.
0:44.8	Water drips off the raincoats as they wait for someone to answer the door.
0:49.4	But no one's responding.
0:51.2	Where's their Airbnb host?
0:53.8	The man reaches out to knock again.
0:58.6	A clean shaven man in his 30s opens a door.
1:01.8	Can I help you?
1:02.8	Yes, we're here to check into our Airbnb.
1:06.5	The man inside the apartment looks puzzled.
1:10.0	That's not possible.
1:11.0	I just checked into this Airbnb.
1:13.4	The woman frowns and checks her phone and then checks the number on the door.
1:18.8	Apartment 3F.
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