Rapid Response: How Airbnb.org is housing Ukrainian refugees, w/Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Management, Reid Hoffman, Mindset, Diversity & Inclusion, Jeff Berman, Bob Safian, Startups

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Airbnb’s charitable arm, Airbnb.org, has committed to offer free, temporary housing for up to 100,000 refugees fleeing Ukraine. Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia joins Rapid Response to discuss how the company is deploying business tools for humanitarian benefit. He also shares how Airbnb’s platform has become a surprising tool to transfer money directly to individual Ukrainians, already generating $15 million. Along with co-founders Brian Chesky and Nate Blecharczyk, Joe is a fierce believer that companies should be responsible to “participate in the world around us” and the importance, as leaders, to ask: What would make us proud?

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0:00.0	Hey listeners, it's Alex Morris, a star writer here at Massive Scale.
0:04.1	Every week on Massive Scale, Rapid Response, you hear real insights from business leaders,
0:09.5	and many of you have said that these episodes help you make more informed decisions in fast
0:13.9	changing situations.
0:15.7	So we want to tell you about another fantastic business podcast that can help you stay
0:20.4	in the know.
0:21.4	It's called Business Daily from the BBC, and it's all about the daily drama of money and
0:26.3	work.
0:27.3	From the environment to the world economy, you'll hear all about the rapidly evolving
0:31.4	world of business on a global scale.
0:34.1	There are new episodes of Business Daily every day, Monday through Friday, and you can
0:38.6	listen wherever you get your BBC podcast.
0:41.6	Again, that's Business Daily from the BBC.
0:45.6	I started with a host in Salt Lake City named Sarah Brown.
0:50.6	She booked that stay in Kiev.
0:53.0	She put it up on her Facebook group with other Airbnb hosts.
0:56.8	Bookings have totaled approximately $15 million.
1:00.6	All of us are just in awe at People's Generous Spirit.
1:06.2	We made a commitment.
1:07.2	Airbnb.org would offer free, temporary housing to 100,000 refugees fleeing from Ukraine.
1:14.0	We've been building what's become the largest accommodations platform on the planet.
1:19.9	It just so happens, we've also been building this incredible humanitarian housing platform
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