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
Then walmarts answer to amazon prime, we will give you a breakdown of what is included an whats not and finally, white house chief of staff mark meadows will join us live, we will talk stimulus, covid19 and the unrest across the nation thats happening toward the top of this hour and you will not want to miss that. Carl kayla, david, guys, everybody is taking stock of the journey we have had not just in august for stocks, but for the past five months, the dow best fivemonth gain since 2009, for the s p the best five months since 1938 and as we said at the top, david, we are heading into historically the worst month not just in general, but especially during election years, september and october have averaged negative returns and we will talk to mark meadows about politics which are increasingly going to be part of the picture here yeah, no doubt. I think you heard it with the last guest who appeared on squawk box at the very end of that show. We are entering what conceivably could be a
Havens. Gold surges with a spot price nearing 2000. Bullish bets on the euro hit a record ahead of todays pmi number. Cash tradings one hour away. Here are your top headlines from the bloomberg terminal. Tictoc terminal tiktok turmoil. Stocks and futures trading mixed. Toe pompeo suggests action protect National Security will not stop with this company alone. Surging baddip on loans. The group says it will accelerate cost cuts. Hear from our exclusive interview with the cfo. 16. 4 billion. They broker a deal for speedway gas stations. Just under one hour away from the start of cash equity trading, take a look at what is going on in terms of futures. Ftse futures down this morning, about. 2 . Dax futures rising. If you were to broaden out this view, you would see an even bigger range. Cac futures are up more than. 5 percent right now. Omx futures are down. 7 . Take a look at what is going on in the u. S. A little bit of a mixed picture as well with nasdaq futures higher this morning. S