Starting with one big picture question of all the enterprises affected by the pandemic yours has to be one fe. The most you are about mobility and people have not been mobile. What is the main discovery will surprise you are taken from this experience. We lost 80 percent in eight weeks. That was quite surprising. But maybe even more surprising isat what happened next. People, no matter the circumstances in the midst of epidemic still have a desire to travel. Didnt want to go to crowded hotels, they did want to get in the car and go to another community and live there somewhere getting homes from airbnb there is a fundamental desire to travel and connect and see the world i dont think anything can stop it let alone a pandemic especially if veyou do it responsibly but there is a strong will to see the world it has to be done in a much narrower context. Host airbnb is a new way to do something people have done for a long time to travel and lodging. Because there is a large structure of arrangements and taxes that has historically been regulated but the fact you do that in l a new way has led to tensions with the City Government so you have a new way to approachh with City Governments in particular . One of our Guiding Principles we want to strengthen the community that wepl serve. I started this company was 26fr years old with my friend i had one job before this when i came to Silicon Valley the culture was technology was a synonym for the word good for one of the things that happened is the company got so big is that we have a greater responsibility that the internet to give the Community Tools to regulate themselves is not enough and you have to take more responsibility for the activity happening in your platform we started to do that a number of years ago we have 400 partnerships with cities we requested more than two. 5 billion in hotel tax spread. 100,000 cities every city is the relationship. It can be very difficult to have these and in the pandemic paper not just traveling to 20 or 30 cities anymore because are going to smaller communities so now we want to scale these relationships to allow the thousands of them to contact us so now the city portal is a onestop shop for a city or smalltown the World Community to partner with airbnb. So we get data and they could contact us and know who to contact george problem and then were building compliance antools so they could help . Dminister. Host what state . We are launching that now in 15 cities we want to design it with w them. But our vision is eventually we were world is out to thousands of anyone that wants to partner up. Host. Wanted more longstanding challenge of those years a reckoning with social justice and injustice some of the people you are exposed to our discriminatory whether a guest or a host house airbnb dealing with the challenge . The whole idea was people to People Platform give them the power and they can do great things the unfortunate thing is as long as discrimination existed also exist on the platform. And 2016 this is brought to our attention there was some systemic racism on the platform so we worked closely a lot of work everyone has to sign a commitment which means you pledged not to discriminate. One. 3million people have chosen not to sign the commitment and have left the platform meaning they dont want to take our values. We worked with Rashad Robinson with a larger civilrights group in the unitedng states and color change and project white house is to measure how much discrimination is actually happening at airbnb to create a first of its kind of partnership and technology so basically collect anonymous rate information and we had to work with civil Rights Groups to do this and were using this to measure how much systemic discrimination and once we cant measure it we can look at the product to reduce what is happening on the platform. This will be a long challenge. Not expecting to change overnight but our challenge is to make sure the gates are more inclusive with a greater sense of belonging than outside the gates hopefully we can lead the way forward maybe we can open source. That is the idea. Host one followup. You mentionedme earlier the change of consciousness that there are downsides to new ways to do things. Do you get a sense most of your peers share your awareness with the racial effects . Guest the Tech Industry is thousands of companies its hard to generalize too much but i will say there has been a broad reckoning and awakening in the Tech Industry and i thinkdu, th the general mindset of the culture is totally different than it was a decade ago when i camean here. It is a very serious topic that comes up and i see leaders taking a very seriously. That doesnt mean we do enough. And then to feel like we shouldve done more sooner . So to look yourself in the mirror to say i was too old for doing just enough so thats a constant reminder we could be doing more and history is watching. Host back to the travel question saying people are doing it in different ways. Driving is the flying or domestic a set of International Military of allentown order to lose solar and over again or thatt they word recognize been one bend over again what about little areas were smaller towns . Yes we are seeing two big trends and travel. First is travel redistribution that hundreds of million of people go to a few big cities new york, los angeles, chicago, miami and go to the tourist district members of the popular landmark now because people are not flying and they dont want to be in crowds for Health Reasons now travel is redistributed but not to anyone communities so it is much more spread out. 50 percent of our business on airbnb used to be 80 percent urban is now 50 percent and nonurban because people are living in less defined areas. The other trend is traveling and living on living whimpering together these to travel a couple of minutes for business or they took vacation it would be one or two weeks. Now people are leaving the area and get a house somewhere soelse in the city to theun country or college get an airbnb with friends. Maybe not live with the family but to get a home nearby so the length of stay is increasing from a week or a month or a couple of months at a time. That didnt exist in a big way like it doesme today. Host we cannot tell is a longterm trend or a phenomenon but what is the airbnb part of the new normal a couple of years from now . Great question. Nobody knows. That is a precarious proposition. But was seems like it might play out clearly the world we are living a in today is not the rest of history that is clear that the room was never going back to the way it was. Travel would never go back the way it was in january. Chain on change never goes backwards that doesnt mean it is doomed. To the people visiting National Parks that they were take away from a National Park but never visited one so the world they are discovering smalltown america is not like people didnt know they existed they just didnt travel there. Often there are no hotels in these areas. There will be a little democratization of travel. People will go back to cities and tourist districts except its going to be a concentrated balance not just resorts. Host airbnb looking at the ipo it was going to happen this year or after the election what do we watch for . We filed our s1 paper at the sec so i cannot say much in the quiet. We were planning to go public before the pandemic then covid hit me put it on the shelf we dusted off and filed it when the market is ready we will be read ready. Host thank you for being here. Thank you veryk much. Atlantic life contributor allison stewart. Next month the National BookAward Winning novel of the same name is a story of abolitionist john brown who was in Harpers Ferry to try to end slavery in this clip he is played by ethan hawke and opponenttake on his with the young character onion who he thinks is a girl but is not. This is john brown here at the house of the emancipation of all gods creation. If it is in doubt let you surrender my son. Go to hell. You and your men. Soft and soften them up. You take your i men. Used a hearing guard the fort. Im joined by actor ethan hawke and James Mcbride thank you for being with us. In and of this novel. How did it make you think of our countrys history differently how did you apply that to yourur portrayal of john brown . Guest what is in question. There is something about the good word bird that let me in history. Onion is so lovable as a character to tell the story from the point of view of a young man pretending to be a woman who has no political agenda but to stay alive to let and life and love and see painful things that you can look at to make it about gender and race and humanity so when you follow along its hard to say why we just want everyone in the world to read it every checkout line we want everyone to have the book and this country has a hard time talking about race and our past it seems hurtful and a scary itsli like a bazooka of love and it lets you talk about it and look at this human point of view. Host you said thinking of slavery in the country with that interconnectedness. House so . Guest i like a bazooka better. [laughter] but we are all connected. History can access. Slavery was a part of the economic life. And of the ecological genocide that has to stop. And john brown was the agent certainly is through the eyes of a kid, of way to act like a stay alive has a certain sense of innocence that this young mans ability to see the web of relationships that existed and how intertwined they were. That they have all been privy to and to be a victim of. And that is the professorial front of the matter. Host john brown goes with it. And so your character has to make a lot of choices. Think of the motivation and that motivation and it is just pure and thats why he goes because he doesnt know what will happen if he tells his true nature. And doing right because once he goes that bond the female one he has that sense of accountability. So god is telling us this is a mission. Even if he is right about big picture things. How you play that idea he is unhinged but correct . I know about you or other people but i bet a few dogooders inli my life. Guest if you want to do people dont think like society thinks and have the courage of your own raconvictions. That makes you seem crazy. And then as much as possible. But slavery kills hundreds of thousands of people and torturing children and society says that is seen in doing something about it is insane . That i love to be insane. I believe that as a definition of sanity. Where we talk as just or unjust laws they are paid complicated ideas. Talk about rewriting with the parameters. Most of this most of them just want to eat and be like us. [laughter] just lay that out. These stories are hard to tell. These issues are difficult to relate to a viewer or reader. That allows for someone to say i am stupid i did something wrong. And then that gives us room to say maybe im not right here. And that allows reason and discourse into the room. And then i try very hard in this book is funny in the macabre way but people will find a lot of humor in it. Host your take on Frederick Douglass. Guest would have to take any liberties of Frederick Douglass life. He married to a black woman with a white mistress living with him and that doesnt work now. [laughter] his portrayal of Frederick Douglass was extraordinary and should be commended and he was allowed that liberty. He said he doesnt like idols. He has played them a lot the best way to show them is to show the full breath of the person. Of course we love and admire him for what hewa was and what he did. Him and john brown are very Close Friends when it came to shooting and fighting for real physically Frederick Douglass was not the man to do that. That doesnt make him less of a human or a man it just gave fodder for us. Host on a different project this is what he said that we had coffee afterwards he gave me a copy of the good word bird and said Frederick Douglass you are into it but to make sure with that particular take on Frederick Douglass i want to make sure you are okay with i it it is brilliant and it is amazing and young joshua who plays onion was a fantastic actor so joshua this is a big role forg you what are some things you learned that you thank you will take with you the rest of your career . Guest being able to work with so many veteran actors on the set every single day. I learned so much about acting how to conduct myself on a set. Working with ethan and orlando jones, steve and they taught me so much little tips and how to make a character go from here to the next level. I am so grateful. I learned more in five months then the first ten years of acting. Host how do you take care of your voice ethan . You have to do a lot of projecting andnd screaming its a whole different register how did you come up with the voice of john brown . Guest it took me 50 years of life to play this part everything i have learned about performance in some aspect was required for this rule. One this rule. I drove up to lake placid to visit his grave. If you stand and somebodys shoes i feel like you have to take off your hat and ask them to join you. I know if that makes sense but there could be a sense of inadequacy if you pretend to be a great human being. So i went there and i thought what does he sound like . Looking at his tombstone and reading his writing i cant find high timber. I could read it but not make it come out of my voice. I am paraphrasing you but you said i think its deeper. So he gave me permission to do that i heard my grandfather was a civil rights activist when it was not cool and he word not shut up about it he would shout at you all the time. I dont know what the poll taxes or gerrymandering or jimmy carter and he would just shout at you. He lived in the depression and has seen so many bad things and he was upset and shouted at people especially young people. And i just took that and i found his words. Also had trouble with my voice and to shift out of your comfort zone. Ending with his attack on the Harpers Ferry with 19 others one of them im proud to say was newspaper editors about the businessy. Of slavery and heated more in those six weeks while he was in prison than he ever did with a gun or a knife, so you know, the blood has already been shed. The path has already been cut. I feel john brown would be dismayed that we are that each others throats now because of what has happened in the last four years ago. He would be delighted to see what these young people have done and are doing now to bring us in the right direction. This is one antidote to pass things up so we can deal with some other things like the climate change. We have to get ourselves together and that is the point of the good lord bird. The war is over, lets move ahead peacefully. Lives have already been lost. Ethan hawke, James Mcbride, the good lord bird will be on showtime on september 4th. The Catherine Macarthur foundation and paypal. Derek thompson a staff writer at the atlantic. Nearly 3,000 billionaires in the world. Do they hang onon to all the riches or share it for the greaterit good. After the Global Citizen ambassador. Thank you both for being here. Lets start with you q. What is Global Citizen and what are you trying to do . Thank you to the atlantic festival for having is with you today. A Global Citizen is a Worldwide Movement committed to the eradication of extreme poverty by 2030 ander our movement realy is focused on mobilizing people who self identify not as citizens is a member of a state or tribe or nation but members of the human race and people who are prepared to act on that belief10 since we were founded over 50 billion has been announced on Global Citizen stages in support of the poverty efforts whether thats the empowerment of girls and women o education, water and sanitation, security or environmental sustainability. To make the pledges to achieve the end of extreme poverty by 2030. Priyanka, you have a very busy career. What drew you toci this endeavo . I think what drew me to it was the fact every Single Person around the world can create a movement and anyone who feels responsible for the rest of the world can tangibly do something and be part of something so large and mobilize. I think it is so true that its really important that people will create larger tables for those who have not had feet on that table and that is another reason why im mobilizing no matter where you are in the world, somebody is worse off than you and when you talk about people in extreme poverty, that is unimaginable. The responsibility of the countries to be able to contribute to eradicate that. A. How exactly does this platform enable people to participate in a global effort to get billionaires to donate their money or help eradicate global poverty. How do people use the platform in this movement . One of the important things we launched together with priyanka is called gave while you live and this was in partnership with Forbes Magazine but its encouraging the worlds high Network Community as you mentioned of the almost 3,000 billionaires on the planet with ant collective of over 10 trillion to give their wealth while they are still alive because what we have seen in the past. Many individuals have pledged their money to a foundation and its sitting there earning interest and doesnt have an impact. We want to change the way we measure philanthropy is not just dollars pledged to a foundation because that makes the foundation wealthy. Getting to the end of recipient, is it getting to the poorest of the poor or a great charity. If you can measure that you can change the world so thats why we worked with forbes and then wev