Brian Chesky

Yeah, I mean, things are really good.

We've accelerated growth for the first time since the pandemic.

We grew 10% last year in revenue.

And this quarter, we announced the revenue was 18%.

So from 10% to 18%, which is a pretty big acceleration.

And marketplaces are really, really hard, right?

It's kind of like gravity.

Once a marketplace at our size doing around $100 billion in gross bookings,

a year started to come down.

It's really hard to tip that curve.

So this has been a pretty big feat for the team to be able to do it.

Um, you know, it's kind of funny.

Um, a number of years ago we, so I noticed that, you know, as we got bigger, we started losing a little bit startup intensity, that startup energy.

And I asked myself like, how can we get that energy back?

And we basically took a very small team, um,

We named the team Project Hawaii.

The name doesn't really matter.

But basically, I took a very small team of people and we said, we're going to focus on a very, very small service area.

And we decided to focus on conversion rate, the guest journey.

And I basically tried to work with a team like as if we're at Rouse Street.