Office Hours: Google vs. Airbnb, SPAC IPOs, Real Estate Investments, and Brick-and-Mortar Stores

The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway

Vox Media Podcast Network

Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Scott answers a question about Google’s dominance in the travel space, and how Airbnb manages to hold its own. He also shares his thoughts on how companies that go public via SPAC are perceived, why real estate is a solid investment, and why opening physical stores can be a powerful branding move — even for a tech company like Amazon. Music: https://www.davidcuttermusic.com / @dcuttermusic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:41.7	Welcome to the Propheed Pods office hours.
0:44.1	This is the part of the show where we answer your questions about business,
0:46.5	big tech, entrepreneurship, and whatever else is on your mind if you'd like to
0:50.3	submit a question, please email a voice recording to officehours at
0:54.0	Propheed Media.com. Again, that's officehours at Propheed Media.com.
0:58.5	First question. Hey Scott, this is James from Jasper in the Canadian Rockies.
1:02.2	Unsurprisingly, given where I live, I'm in the tourism space.
1:05.5	And knowing how well Airbnb has done thus far since going public and knowing that
1:10.0	TripAdvisor apparently is working on a subscription model and knowing how
1:13.9	well Expedia's stock has done over last year up almost 100%.
1:17.8	Why is it that I still think Google's going to eat everybody's lunch and travel?
1:21.0	Thanks. So James from Jasper in the Canadian Rockies.
1:25.3	Dude, my senses you have it figured out. I just get the sense where you live is
1:28.6	incredibly beautiful and you're really happy and balanced and
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