We're going to focus on trying to truly build a great company.'" Market matters "We got all hands on deck and said, 'We're not really going to worry about things we can't control. "In the depth of the crisis, our stock was just a little over $20 a share," Chesky says. Importantly, focus is what also allowed Airbnb to go public last year, against all the odds. Not only has focus helped Airbnb withstand the coronavirus pandemic, he says, but it will also be what sets the company up to capitalize on travel's rebound – which is "not a matter of 'if' it's a matter of 'when.'" "It's going to be a year of focus," Chesky told Bloomberg Television anchor Emily Chang. So much so that the Airbnb co-founder and CEO said the word seven times throughout a roughly 20-minute interview during Bloomberg's The Year Ahead online event last week. If there's one thing Brian Chesky is focused on in 2021, that would be, well, focus.
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