Airbnb CEO: It Took Us 12 Years to Build, and We Lost Almost Everything in 6 Weeks

[TheVigilante]

You can spend decades building a dream, and the world can destroy it with something as random as a pandemic from an unknown virus. That was exactly what happened to Brian Chesky, the CEO of Airbnb, with the arrival of the COVID-19 this year.

Source: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/352419

 

[TheMarquis]

The entire HoReCa was down in this period. I don't want to be in the place of someone who just invested a good amount of money in his business just before the crisis.

 

[Mr Positive]

And he’ll even recover in 6 weeks when it resumes again, have you’ll seen the most expensive airnbs it’s not cheap at all

 

[RealDaddy]

What happened to that guy who was selling AirBnB COURSES?

 

[Topiano]

What happened to that guy who was selling AirBnB COURSES?

Brian page you mean ?

 

[TheVigilante]

What happened to that guy who was selling AirBnB COURSES?

You mean the course where he taught how to earn via Airbnb without owning a property?

 

[Mikka12]

Oh God. I feel sorry for them. Like the airline industry, the second most hit during this pandemic is the hotels & accommodation. I used to book through Airbnb as I want to go to a place that feels like home. Used them several times when I went to Japan, Korea, INdonesia, Vietnam, Thailand. I've better experience compared to hotels out there. I hope it is not #RIPAirbnb

 

[RealDaddy]

Brian page you mean ?

YES

You mean the course where he taught how to earn via Airbnb without owning a property?

YES

 

[TheVigilante]

YES


YES

No idea I too was curious what he had in store

 

[MacArthur]

I believe; there’s a finite stop for this loss of revenue in the coming future. When a company reiterate its development plan, insurance of pandemic situation will be a mostly worked on by any unicorn firm in HoReCa. I believe Airbnb will be back with a boom.
Yes, we all failed in the revenue models that we practiced till date.

 

[MoneyMagnet2015]

I was about to invest in accommodation, luckly saw the pademic incomming early. I was expecting something big to happen between months 2 and 3 since I'm a 23rdian.

 

[mylastvacation]

One of the most important things I learned in this forum is that diversifying your income, traffic, properties, niches, etc is like the most basic financial advice you have to follow in business.

How is it even possible that the CEO of a huge company in a first world country who is supposed to be business savvy, would think they are bulletproof and they should put all their eggs in one basket and that there's no chance anything bad will ever happen to the economy or to the world that could jeopardize their business?

 

[TheVigilante]

One of the most important things I learned in this forum is that diversifying your income, traffic, properties, niches, etc is like the most basic financial advice you have to follow in business.

How is it even possible that the CEO of a huge company in a first world country who is supposed to be business savvy, would think they are bulletproof and they should put all their eggs in one basket and that there's no chance anything bad will ever happen to the economy or to the world that could jeopardize their business?

My thoughts exactly!

He did not learn from Amazon, Google and Microsoft lol or maybe he has other ventures running who knows

 

[davids355]

Easy come, easy go.

 

[WebTG]

He seems to be very demotivated, as per him the normal days will never come.

 

[Nut-Nights]

The real problem is for small businessmen with loans. These big organizations can save themselves If they want to.

 

[pablitojanno]

I'm sorry for them.
But 6 weeks can destroy a business like that? Probably it wasn't so health even before...

 

[Jyeshtha]

What happened to that guy who was selling AirBnB COURSES?

LOL man, I was thinking something has changed and missing something after lockdown, but just realized seeing your post. That guy had retargeted me everywhere, literally everywhere.

Thank god. It was like we see the antismoking and drinking ads before the start of a movie, be it at home or cinemas.

 

[Deleted member 1313244]

They kept putting off their IPO as well to get a better price.

 

[ExperimentalSEO]

I'm sorry for them.
But 6 weeks can destroy a business like that? Probably it wasn't so health even before...

Because they are run by idiots that believe that San Francisco is a great location to be based out of. Even 12 years ago the cost of doing business was much higher than many other areas of the nation.