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Emil Michael: Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky could not have built Uber
“And now I would argue that Brian Chesky could not have built Uber.”
Gebbia: Airbnb faced $1.5 billion in refund requests over two weeks in 2020
“We realized That we had about a billion and a half dollars of refunds to make in about a couple of weeks.”
Gebbia: Airbnb has collected over $5B in municipal hotel taxes
“We implemented transient oxypeed tax or hotel tax which since we've launched that, we've I believe it's over five billion dollars”
Gebbia: Modernizing federal websites is his hardest challenge since Airbnb
“Like, I think this is one of the hardest challenges I've ever faced. Besides how do you get a stranger to stay in a stranger's home? This is like the next biggest challenge. How do you upgrade a whole web of outdated digital experiences for the American people…”
Gebbia: Airbnb was intended as a one-off weekend project, not a company
“This instance of trying something was meant to be a weekend, never meant to be a company, but it gave us the basis for what became the next iteration.”
Gebbia: Airbnb raised about $2 billion in emergency debt during COVID-19
“For our investors, we took out about two billion dollars in debt just to make sure we had money in the bank, because no one knew how long this was gonna go on for.”
Gebbia: Samara spun out of Airbnb as an independent company
“And it's actually started as an innovation team inside Airbnb. We spun it out late last year brought in a co-founder, Mike McNamara, and we started an independent company.”
Gebbia: Airbnb began filing to go public in December 2019
“In December of 2019, we started the paperwork process to file to go public.”