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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
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 don t think that anything can stop it, let alone a pandemic. obviously, people have to do it responsibly, but there is still a v
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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 ca