Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast it dives into a different sector of the stock market every day.

This is Vincent Shen.

Thanks to all the fools out there tuning in.

It is Wednesday, January 25th, and we are pre-recording this episode to take advantage of the fact

that Full.com contributor Seth McNew is here in DC this week and in studio with me right now.

Seth, welcome back to Industry Focus. How has 2017 been treating you so far?

Thanks a lot, Vince. It's been good. I just got back from a long trip in Asia, so I'm excited to be back in the States.

Yes, and we will hear a little bit about that.

Where did you go?

I went a few places, so I started in Tokyo and then on to Macau.

Okay, excellent, and that Macau leg of your trip is what we will be talking about a little bit but even

Tokyo too will play into it towards the end of the show because today we are talking

about hospitality gaming and a few developments with a notable former startup upstart and then also a kind of

of outlook for gaming and how some of the new resorts in Macau have been performing and what you've seen

firsthand from your trip.

So for our first topic, we'd like to revisit Airbnb a little bit.

I actually was surprised to find that we haven't really covered the company

substantially at least since 2015, summer of 2015. Of course they are still, they have not gone through their IPO yet, but it's

building some of the rumors are building up that 2017 is going to be the year

after 2016 amounted to a rather slow year for Silicon Valley IPOs.

So Airbnb though, just in case for anyone who hasn't used a service, quick overview what it is,

you know, what they do.

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