here s the power player of the week. before you walk through the lobby ejecting you went to our room and never came back to the lobby unless you were on your way out of the hotel. today the lobby is a gathering place. bill marriott is talking about millennials, folks in their 20s and early 30s and what they want in hotels. marriott has been in the business for 60 years. i traveled 110,000 miles last year. at age 8. he s all about the future. how much of you focus is on the millennials? right now about 45% to 50% of our business and in another three or four years they ll be 60% of our business. we just got through talking about a portfolio project we have going on. marriott has an innovation lab where staffers brainstorm and talk with millennials. they have mock ups of the potential hotel rooms, edgy, not much color, big beds and big tvs
here s the power player of the week. before you walk through the lobby ejecting you went to our room and never came back to the lobby unless you were on your way out of the hotel. today the lobby is a gathering place. bill marriott is talking about millennials, folks in their 20s and early 30s and what they want in hotels. marriott has been in the business for 60 years. i traveled 110,000 miles last year. at age 8. he s all about the future. how much of you focus is on the millennials? right now about 45% to 50% of our business and in another three or four years they ll be 60% of our business. we just got through talking about a portfolio project we have going on. marriott has an innovation lab where staffers brainstorm and talk with millennials. they have mock ups of the potential hotel rooms, edgy, not much color, big beds and big tvs
before you walk through the lobby, you checked in and went to your room and never came back to the lobby unless you were on the way out of the hotel. today the lobby is a gathering place. that s totally different. bill marriott is talking about millennials. folks in their 20s and early 30s and what they want in hotels. while marriott has been in the business 60 years i traveled 110,000 miles last year. at age 83, he s all about the future. how much of your focus is on the millennials? right now about 45% to 50% of our business. in another three to four years it will be 60% of our business. we got talking about a portfolio project in new york city that we have going on. marriott has an innovation lab where staffers brainstorm and talk with millennials and even have mockups of potential hotel rooms. edgy, not much color, big beds and big tvs. but often no desk since they re
i did play dumb because when you re a single guy and you have three kids, meeting women isn t always the easiest thing. sometime i would play dumb just to try to this is like the guy with a dog thing. taking puppy to the beach. the kids at the playground. what i found was, girls my age didn t want to go out with me. so i had to readjust and i started focusing on nannies. nannies were the best. they had big nice houses that were empty. refrigerators full of food. i m glad you said houses. and big beds. it was crazy. it was like an hourly hotel that i could actually go to. it was pretty good. don t be uncomfortable. did they like being referred to as girls? when they re your age? who is that? the women you re talking about. no, they don t. generally not good. but again, see, i m not too good with doing things doing thinks politically correct. what is the best sort of
bill: you have to send someone in to assess it? no you don t have to. they have calculations that substitute for someone coming into your house. bill: who? who has calculations. that s why i use the french government as an example. instead of someone coming in and counting your furniture they would simply use a number like a% of your total wealth. bill: how would they know what your total wealth is? how? the same way people know when they file taxes in the united states. no one comes in and counts your money. bill: no, no. you don t know economics. your wealth is your wealth. you don t have to put it down on your tax form. i don t put down how much my net worth on tax form. i know that. bill: how does the government know how much you are worth? how? what i m saying in the same way that with federal income tax in america you submit documents, receipts. bill: you would have to submit. i have got six love seats, two big beds, four cars, and here is what they re worth