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Gebbia: Team aims to fix all 27,000 government websites
“Well, some estimates have up to 27,000. And we're fixing all of them.”
Gebbia: Federal staff completed digital retirement proof-of-concept in four days
“We went off, the careers took this assignment on, and they didn't do it in seven days. They did it in four days. They did it faster than we all thought. It was possible, you know, again, it was a proof of concept prototype.”
Gebbia: The federal design team has shipped safedc.gov and trumpcard.gov
“We've already shipped a couple things already. People can see some of our initial work on safe DC.gov, which is a new website to help attract law enforcement talent to come join the task force here in DC. We shipped trumpcard.gov, which is- Trump card.”
Gebbia: Some U.S. government websites turn off at 6 PM daily
“Government websites, some of them turn off at six p.m. Because they have operating hours.”
Gebbia: The White House ballroom project is completely privately funded
“And by the way, doing it without costing taxpayers a dime. This is all privately funded.”
Gebbia: Nuclear power is one of the safest energy sources
“The technology's proven itself over 50, 60 plus years. It's safe, it's one of the safest forms of energy. People don't realize this. It's actually one of the safest forms of energy.”
Gebbia: 70% of Americans across all age groups have chronic disease
“You know, 70% of people have chronic disease. It's kind of insane. You know, at all, all age ranges. And it's like, we spend the most on healthcare, yet we have the most disease.”
Gebbia: Over 70,000 federal retirees are in the new digital pipeline
“And on August first, we flicked the switch. All new retirements were required to go through our software. And now we've got upwards of 70,000 retirees in the pipeline.”
Gebbia: Federal retirement application time cut from dozens of hours to minutes
“And the process that a retiree spends themselves, or an employee, went from, you know, Dozens of hours to six minutes or less.”
Gebbia: Former DOGE staff took full-time roles inside federal agencies
“Some people have taken full-time roles within different agencies and have brought the spirit of Doge into those agencies.”
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: Small modular reactors can reuse existing nuclear waste as fuel
“Small modular reactors which will address some of the issues of the costs involved in building nuclear plants, the timelines associated with building nuclear plants. Small modular actors can actually reuse existing nuclear waste as their energy source.”
Gebbia: Federal retirees previously waited months to learn their monthly annuity payment
“The way it worked previously is you didn't find out how much you're going to make every month for the rest of your life until your first check, check arrived months later.”
Gebbia: Estimates show upwards of 27,000 .gov websites exist
“We have upwards of some estimates say 27,000 dot gov websites that some look like they're from the mid nineties with regards to their interface design.”
Gebbia: California ADU permit applications surged 17x after 2016 law
“California passed a law in 2016 that basically makes it a right for somebody to have an ADU in their backyard, and since that law passed, permit applications have increased 17 x in the state of California. Eight other states have also copied California's laws.”
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.”
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.”
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.”