Airbnbs
Brian Chesky and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang avoid one-on-one meetings with subordinates.”You become like their therapist,” Chesky told Fortune.Yet one person who studies meetings said making an employee feel heard can have “amazing” outcomes.Meetings are the main way Airbnb’s Brian Chesky gets work done. Yet he says the one-on-one format with…
I backpacked across six cities and four countries in Europe in 2022, including Berlin and Zurich. I booked two Airbnbs in the suburbs to save money, and the towns surprised me. These crowd-free places were hidden gems. And if I weren’t on a budget, I never would have seen them.…
Andrew Church has lived on Maui for more than two decades, while his long-term partner and fiancée, with whom he has a daughter, was born and raised on the island.After working and saving for years, Church started purchasing properties to operate as rentals in September 2022 and now has four…
In July, thousands of Spaniards took to the streets of Barcelona to protest overtourism. Protesters squirted water from toy guns at visitors sitting at sidewalk cafés.The demonstration was the culmination of years of surging visitor numbers and rising housing and other living costs in the seaside metropolis. Barcelona’s mayor has…
Last September, New York City began enforcing its strict new regulations on short-term rentals. Since then, the number of legal short-term rentals listed on Airbnb and other platforms has plummeted.Less than a year into the city’s policy, known as Local Law 18, it’s not clear whether the near-ban is achieving…
