Tonight’s guest on The Daily Show is Brian Chesky. The panelists on The Nightly Show are Eddie George, Rory Albanese, and Franchesca Ramsey.
Brian Chesky
is an American Internet entrepreneur. He is best known as one of the co-founders of the hospitality exchange service, Airbnb. Chesky is the CEO of the company. He has been named one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2015.
Chesky attended the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) where he met Joe Gebbia who would later go on to be co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Airbnb. While at RISD, where Chesky earned a B.F.A in Industrial design, he and his two friends ran the NADS Hockey Team. They were interested in turning the team into a brand as it was on the verge of cancellation. Through re-branding, the team came up with the notorious RISD mascot, Scrotie as the logo for the NADS Hockey Team. Chesky says that it "was [his] greatest creation yet." He also credits the Scrotie project as one of his forays into entrepreneurship.
Last November, Airbnb was forced to do some soul-searching. In a few short weeks, the company had angered most of San Francisco, defeated an existential threat to business in the same city, declared its platform “a movement,” and announced plans for grassroots lobbying across America. Airbnb’s campaign for home sharing was working, but at the price of its genial, responsible, good-neighbor image.
“Following the announcement of our Community Compact last November, we removed approximately 1,500 listings from our platform in New York City that were controlled by commercial operators and did not reflect Airbnb’s vision for our community,” Josh Meltzer, Airbnb’s New York director of public policy, wrote in a letter to state legislators on Wednesday (Feb. 24). The cleanup affected 622 hosts, of which 375 (about 60%) had two listings or more. Airbnb says that caused the fraction of revenue earned by hosts with multiple listings to drop 3%.
Airbnb’s letter effectively confirms what two researchers alleged earlier this month: that the company manipulated its data before presenting it to the public. In their report, “How Airbnb’s data hid the facts in New York City,” the researchers claimed that Airbnb carried out a “one-time targeted purge of over 1,000 listings” in November to decrease its percentage of multi-listing hosts (also known as “commercial operators”) and “paint a more attractive picture of its business.”
I assume this will be part of what they discuss.
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Eddie George
is an American former college and professional football player and who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for nine seasons. He played college football for Ohio State University and won the Heisman Trophy in 1995. He was drafted in the first round of the 1996 NFL Draft, and played professionally for the Tennessee Titans (both in Tennessee and in Houston when the franchise was known as the Houston Oilers). George was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2011. Post-football, George earned an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. In 2016, he will appear on Broadway in the play Chicago; his role is hustling lawyer Billy Flynn.
Rory Albanese
is an American comedian, comedy writer and television producer. A Long Island, New York native, he was an executive producer and writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, which he joined in 1999 and was with until October 2013. He is now Executive Producer of The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore.
Franchesca Ramsey
Hey there! I’m Franchesca, but most people online know me as Chescaleigh. I’m originally from West Palm Beach, Florida (where your grandparents live) and I’m a writer, actress and video blogger based out of New York City.
My “claim to fame” came in January 2012 when my video, “Sh*t White Girls Say…to Black Girls” (SWGSTBG) went viral. It garnered over 1.5 million views in 24 hours and 5 million views in just 5 days. It also made a lot of white girls cry. SWGSTBG currently has 11 million views and has been featured on MSNBC, ABC, The Daily Mail and the Anderson Cooper talk show, to name a few. And someone even wrote a 20 page graduate dissertation on it!
In addition to making YouTube videos, I’m the writer-at-large Upworthy.com and host of the MTV News webseries “Decoded”.
This Week's Guest List
THE DAILY SHOW WITH TREVOR NOAH, Comedy Central
We 2/24: Brian Chesky
Th 2/25: Michael Hayden
THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT, CBS
We 2/24: Adrien Brody, Danai Gurira, Brian Greene
Th 2/25: Tim Daly, Krysten Ritter, Jason Isbell
Fr 2/26: Bobby Cannavale, Donny Deutsch, Charles Kelley (R 2/5/16)
CONAN, TBS
We 2/24: Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg, Kunal Nayyar, Mayim Bialik, Melissa Rauch
Th 2/25: Robert Patrick, Kate Hudson, Lake Street Dive
JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE, ABC
We 2/24: Gordon Ramsay, Wolfmother
Th 2/25: Kelly Ripa, Billy Brown, Tinashe & Snakehips featuring Chance the Rapper
Fr 2/26: Kerry Washington, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Jason Derulo (R 2/18/16)
THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON, NBC
We 2/24: Taraji P. Henson, Mike Birbiglia, FKA Twigs
Th 2/25: Gerard Butler, Jenny Slate, the 1975
Fr 2/26: Nathan Lane, Keri Russell