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Mar 2022
37m 27s

Airbnb vs NYC | The Gathering Storm | 3

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By 2017, Airbnb's legal troubles are snowballing so fast, it’s not clear whether it will survive. But there’s another gathering storm that nobody could have forecast – the COVID-19 pandemic. And it will make a direct hit on Airbnb.

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