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
White house whether the president sticks to that. A lot of people think the president is throwing out a negotiating ploy here. Im taking at his word likes he doesnt want to do it virtually. I dont know what the alternative can be and next debate further back. What are you hearing . Reporter keep in mind, neil, this all happened very quick. The commission on president ial debates this morning said the next president ial debate would be virtual. Moments later President Trump appeared on Maria Bartiromos show, no, no, he will not be involved in that at all. The campaign clearly took the cue from the president they then put out a statement saying instead the president will hold a rally that evening. Joe bidens campaign has just come out and said instead on that evening biden will speak and take questions from voters as the debate was supposed to be a town hallstyle format. Here were first reactions from President Trump and joe biden this morning. Watch. President trump no, i dont want to d
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
Climbing and nasdaq pole vaulting 2. 26 september has still been ugly. Ive been warning you that this is historically the worst month of the year. Ever since august ended, complete with a nasty tenday close and thats precisely what we got but now that september is almost over, lets focus on the future meaning next weeks game plan. It starts on monday when we get results from the mighty four industries which dominate the rv and motor home industry. When the pandemic first hit, ford sold off hard as investors figured wed have a normal recession and rv sales get slaughtered. Sure enough, we have a slowdown and mass unemployment and an incredible boom in the rv business because these things represent one of the only safe way to go on vacation. Since then, thor stock soared but tends to pull back every time people get excited about a potential vaccine. Lie i can th i bet rvs stay longer than you might expect tuesday we hear from companies that can potentially deliver upside surprises that m