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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: evaluation
11 Dec 2020 Acquired Airbnb
“Hotel rates can be like $1000+ a night during the week because there is always a conference going on of some type.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- evaluation
- Recorded
- 11 Dec 2020
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Airbnb
Transcript context
…WWDC has since moved down to the South Bay and now online. But I remember looking at hotel rooms for the week of WWDC before it got announced because people are speculating on what week it would be and rates were still like 5x what you would expect them to be because people are pre-anticipating. There are clearly not enough hotel rooms. The thing that you figure out if you live here and you don't have family friends you want to visit is—that's just not WWDC, that's literally every week. Every week, there is a big event going on at the Moscone Center or elsewhere in the city. There just aren't enough hotels here for demand. Hotel rates can be like $1000+ a night during the week because there is always a conference going on of some type. They start cooking up an idea and Joe sends Brian an email. Why he sent this over email when they're living together, I don't know, but he sent him a very famous email. They knew that we're going to be doing a podcast one day and they wanted to leave a paper trail.…
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