Today we bring you an interview with Nathan Blecharczyk, the co-founder of Airbnb. Airbnb is one of the biggest technology success stories of the last 20 years and, at the time of recording, they have a market cap of 92 billion dollars.

Airbnb is the ultimate ‘Giant Idea’: when they started the idea of staying in a stranger’s home was unthinkable, and 14 years later they’ve had over a billion stays. But it didn’t begin with a grand vision and there were plenty of false starts.

In this interview, Nathan talks about the power of purpose, and specifically how Airbnb’s values helped them survive a series of crises including a racism scandal involving hosts, guests trashing apartments, and losing 80% of their revenue in 8 weeks during the pandemic. Asking the questions here at the Giant Ideas summit was CNBC and Sky News anchor, Wilfred Frost.