The Agile Scaleup: Airbnb Co-founder; Winners and Losers; Travel Budget Grab; Equality vs. Equity

August 27, 2020

Airbnb Co-founder; Winners and Losers; Travel Budget Grab; Equality vs. Equity

Hope it’s been a productive and purposeful week for you. Here are some insights to help you outlearn/outthink our reaction to the virus.

I still live in the original Airbnb and I still Airbnb it so you can book it. It's available throughout the year, you can book the couch for just like $50.

Brian Chesky, co-founder Airbnb, quoted 6 days ago

Corporate Travel Budgets – Opportunity for Mid-Market Firms
Are your client’s large companies? At last week’s CEO Boot Camp I picked up a lucrative idea. Most leaders inside large firms worry most about losing their budget for next year – and with corporate travel down to almost zero (impacting Airbnb and others), they are sitting on piles of money they need to spend on something else or risk losing. A couple of the boot camp CEOs said they were able to tap into these funds inside their large corporate clients. Opportunity for you? Ask your sales people to pursue.

Airbnb Lost 80% of Their Business – and Filed to go Public Last Week
…and only founders have the capability to decide, after losing a billion dollars in revenue, to set up a $250 million fund to support their customers! This amazing triad at the top of Airbnb – Brian Chesky, Nathan Blecharczyk, and Joe Gebbia – have navigated their firm through this crisis using a stakeholder model of business (vs. the old shareholder approach), raising $2 billion to shore up the firm while painfully having to lay off 1900 employees (25%) which Chesky explained in this letter to employees (a great model of communication) a few months ago.

Sept 17 -- Nate Blecharczyk, co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Airbnb --
Opening with Richard Branson and joining Sarah Friar, Adam Grant, Gary Hamel, and Scott Galloway (see below) – Nate Blecharczyk is closing out our 90-minute virtual Summit 2.0. No better way to inspire you and your team with ideas and insights from 6 of the top biz thinkers of our time as you power through the final four months of 2020 and into 2021. Nate will address four topics:

How they are navigating this crisis
What is their January announced “stakeholder” approach and the associated KPI’s
Their welcoming (and contrarian) approach to local regulation
How Nate and the other two co-founders make their unique triad work

Scott Galloway -- The Four Horsemen Post-Corona – Sept 17
The outrageous NYU marketing prof Scott Galloway (of The Four fame) is also joining us for the Sept 17 virtual summit. Scott will share the implications of Coronavirus on society, the markets, and business. Through the lens of “The Four” (Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google) Scott unpacks how industries including retail, media, healthcare, and technology will be impacted by COVID-19.

Winners and Losers that Will Emerge post-Corona –
Like his prediction five years ago that Apple would win over Amazon, Facebook, and Google, Scott Galloway is also going to share who he thinks will be the winners and losers that will emerge post-Corona. This fifteen-minute video, five years ago, put Scott on the map – and why he predicted Apple would be the first trillion-dollar market cap firm (and now it’s the first $2 trillion). Go right to minute 13 in the video to see the only three ways you sell something!! Scott’s 12-minutes of marketing genius Sept 17 is not to be missed.

Equality, Equity, Inclusion – In a Picture
This week I participated in a Conscious Capitalism webinar on DEI – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion – which was quite good. Late to the party, you might have already seen this image, but it visually shows the difference between equality, equity, and inclusion. And this excellent short article elaborates on the image and why a focus on inclusion and equity are more important than equality.

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