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   Listen to the podcast (duration: 43:25) >  For Airbnb and its co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky, the pandemic crisis was a crazier roller-coaster ride than almost any other organization experienced. The online lodging marketplace went from predictions that it might not survive the COVID-19 crisis to staging a successful IPO less than nine months later. In this special, guest episode of McKinsey’s Inside the Strategy Room podcast, senior partner James Manyika, who chairs the McKinsey Global Institute, learns from the Airbnb leader what that ride was really like.

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