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Assertion Supported
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.”
Joe Gebbia Apr 12, 2023 ▶ 22:13 Ep 53: Joe Gebbia Changed the World with Airbnb. Here's What He's Building Next. · Joe Lonsdale
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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”
Joe Gebbia Apr 12, 2023 ▶ 27:06 Ep 53: Joe Gebbia Changed the World with Airbnb. Here's What He's Building Next. · Joe Lonsdale
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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.”
Joe Gebbia Apr 12, 2023 ▶ 24:09 Ep 53: Joe Gebbia Changed the World with Airbnb. Here's What He's Building Next. · Joe Lonsdale
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Gebbia: Airbnb laid off about 25% of its workforce during COVID-19
“For our employees we did have to go through a riff, laid off about 25% of our workforce.”
Joe Gebbia Apr 12, 2023 ▶ 23:26 Ep 53: Joe Gebbia Changed the World with Airbnb. Here's What He's Building Next. · Joe Lonsdale
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Gebbia: Airbnb funded a $250 million relief fund for hosts during COVID-19
“For our hosts, we came up with a relief fund to help put some money back into their pockets. That was two hundred fifty million dollars. Out of our pocket.”
Joe Gebbia Apr 12, 2023 ▶ 23:17 Ep 53: Joe Gebbia Changed the World with Airbnb. Here's What He's Building Next. · Joe Lonsdale
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