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
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
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 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 tan
Thank you for joining us all tonight. For ideas in action with alisha garza. Im amity and good mitigation structure for the countrys Largest Online Racial Justice organization. And here to introduce tonights event. We are partnering with oneworld tonight to make a virtual space for critical conversation between editor and chief of oneworld and are one of our most powerful organizers and visionaries, alisha garza. In 2014 alisha rhoda he spoke post that change the world and created a movement. It read black people, i love you. I love us and our lives matter, black lives matter. That movement continued today and tonight alisha and chris will discuss the resistance and resilience of how they ground the work in a vision of collective humanity. At color change we believe everyday people are powerful enough to end the practices that are moving black people back and harming our country. We Champion Solutions that move us all forward and in the last two weeks weve had 6. 5 Million People take
2014, alicia garzer wrote a Facebook Post that changed the world and created a movement, it read black people, i love you, i love us, all lives matter, black lives matter. That continues today. Tonight alicia garzer and Chris Jackson will discuss resistance and resilience and how they ground the work in the vision, every day people are powerful enough to end practices that are unfairly Holding Black people back and harming our country and we Champion Solutions that move us forward. In the last few weeks we held help 6 Million People take action for racial justice, both an important conversation. Chris jackson, one world editor in chief will kick us off. Thank you very much for being here with us. Cant imagine who i would rather be talking to tonight. Alicia garzer, one of our countrys most powerful who can speak particularly well at this moment. I want to thank color change for working with us on this project tonight and people who have been so active in getting it organized. To take a