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Special Episode: TechCheck – Capping off our Inaugural Week: an Exclusive with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, Jason Calacanis Weighs in on the Week in Debuts, The Reopening of Universal Studios Hollywood and so much more.

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CNBC

Business News, Investing, Business, News

4494 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

We’re capping off our inaugural week packed with powerhouse guests and the top stories in tech with an exclusive interview with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky. He discusses the future of work and his travel expectations post-Covid with our Deirdre Bosa. Plus, big time tech investor Jason Calacanis joins us to weigh in on the week of market debuts, Coinbase’s implications for crypto and Robinhood’s fight in Massachusetts. We’ve also got new product news coming up next week from Apple-we’re digging into customer loyalty to both Apple and Amazon remaining high. And our Julia Boorstin takes us live to Universal Studios Hollywood on re-opening day. CNBC’s Josh Lipton also joins to break down the chip stocks to invest in right now. That and so much more today on the show.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey it's C. NBC producer Katie Kramer here and I want to tell you about a new

0:04.4

cnbicciancass called Tech.

0:06.8

C. NBC's John Fort, Carl Quintanilla, and dear Drabosa are going coast to

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coast to bring you the must have market insight

0:13.7

into new technology and trends

0:15.4

from the most iconic companies.

0:17.1

Listen in to today's episode of Tech Check

0:19.2

and subscribe to the podcast today. Good Friday morning and welcome to Tech Check I'm Deirder Bozo with Carl Quintanilla and John Fort. A big show to close out our very first week. Trouble in the listing market,

0:49.4

Coinbase, the largest back ever, and a few underwater IPOs signs of euphoria or the air coming out of a bubble.

0:57.2

And an exclusive with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, one of the more remarkable business stories of the pandemic will get his

1:05.3

take on business and crypto too. Looking ahead to a big week for Apple, why loyalty is everything in tech right now.

1:15.0

In the meantime, big story this morning is, of course, the market, S&P, another all-time high.

1:21.0

Same story for the Dow above 34 k

1:23.7

zeroing in on technology also setting some records up 8% for the month

1:28.2

Cisco's at the top of the indices and video up 12 this week

1:31.8

but a pretty major winner d it's interesting you know the market's having to and are going to be names like Peloton, Octa, Splunk, Work Day as we sort of put more faith in the

1:46.2

reopening of the economy.

1:49.1

Yeah, and even some of the big tech names have sort of lost a bit of momentum this year John but we've got

1:54.4

earning season kicking off and the five mega cap tech companies expected to post

2:00.7

combined revenue of just under $300 billion if you ever needed a reminder

2:06.4

of just how big they've become.

2:08.7

Yeah, well we've had some pretty big debuts too in tech, some disappointment mixed in this week. The world's biggest

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