I'm really excited to have Raffa Ali who went on to be CEO of two companies that he started himself

after working for me for a brief time. Raffit is now the CEO and founder of a product called Skift. Let's talk about travel.

I am hearing that things like Uber and extended stay hotels in certain regions are now getting back to 60,

70 percent. Is that a correct statistic?

So extended stay, which is longer term hotels, right?

Yeah.

They were doing, they have been doing well throughout the pandemic, which is people using that as a longer

term stay whether people moving out of cities and staying in these hotels for a

while or people just wanted to get out of their house So extended stay in fact they're the only

hotel extended stay America is is the only public hotel company that has

posted profits through these pandemics and so they're

They I mean if you have a kitchen you don't have to go out that's why I love staying at those and I like you know

people like oh aren't you staying at the four seasons I'm like I like, like, you know, people like, oh, aren't you staying at the four seasons?

I'm like, I like a place that has, I like a kitchen.

I like to make my coffee in the morning.

For that reason, Airbnb, which a lot of people were riding off at the start of this pandemic.

People are done with short-term rentals.

Nobody wants to stay in another house

because of the cleanliness, etc.

Guess what?

We are here today, August 10th, we're recording.

Story today that they're looking to file their IP on the next month. So they must have had a huge rebound.

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