Deborahears, my wife and i have traveled across the country, especially across the towns, to learn about those parts of the american story. For conversation about future travel, i am glad to welcome the. Eo of airbnb, brian thank you so much for joining us. I have questions about your business in the olden times, in the future times. I want to start with one big picture question about all the enterprises that have an affected by the enterprise, yours has to be most affected. You are about mobility, and people have not been mobile. What is the main lesson, surprise, or discovery that you personally have taken from the experience in the last eight months or so. Ourn we lost about 80 of business in eight weeks, that we had spent about a decade building. That was quite surprising. What may have been even more surprising what is what happened next. What happens next is people, no matter the circumstances, in the midst of the pandemic, still had the desire to travel. They did not want to get
People have not been mobile. What is the main lesson, surprise, or discovery that you personally have taken from the experience in the last eight months or so. Ourn we lost about 80 of business in eight weeks, that we had spent about a decade building. That was quite surprising. What may have been even more surprising what is what happened next. What happens next is people, no matter the circumstances, in the midst of the pandemic, still had the desire to travel. They did not want to get on planes, they were not necessarily traveling for business, they did not want to go to a hotel or crowded tourist district, but they did want to get in a car with a tank of gas and go to a community, and often some of them were getting homes with airbnb. So i think there is just a fundamental desire that people have to travel, to connect, the see the world, and i dont think that anything can stop it, let alone a pandemic. Obviously, people have to do it responsibly, but there is still a very strongwil
One of the most effective. You are about mobility of people and not been mobile. Whats the main lesson or surprise or discovery that you personally have taken from the experience and the last eight months or so . We lost about 80 of our business and eight weeks. We its been about a decade building. That was quiten surprising but the thing that may been more surprising is what happenedis next. What happened next is that people, no matter the circumstances, in the midst of the pandemic still had the desire to travel. They didnt want to get on planes, they were not necessary traveling for business. They didnt want to go to my hotel or they did want to get in the car and go to another community and live in that community and often some of them were getting homes with airbnb. Theres just this fundamental desire that people have to travel, to connect, to see the world and i dont think that anything could stop it let alone a pandemic. People have to do it responsibly but there is still a very
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International law it belongs to azerbaijan. Azerbaijani officials have imposed martial law and curfews the government in baku blames its neighbor for the new escalation. Its no secret that the 1st shot was also carried out by the armenian military. Many stone arch. Khaki has promised to back either by john there were joint military exercises in july which had to now have enough. Knowledge to touch one to destroy the armenians and armenia thats clear story a media is hoping for Russian Support for moscow and the e. U. Have called for an end to the fighting. Are going to turn out to rome and then go from the Russian Department for more on this settlement this is a long running conflict were talking here for decades a given how serious is this latest flare up and what makes it so intractable. Well it is very serious it is already a limited war and it could grow into something bigger well we are still in not in a position to to establish what went wrong on the sunday as the fighting erupte