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Free Webinar | April 2: Why Most Businesses Stall — and How to Build One That Keeps Growing

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Why This Matters

This webinar highlights the key strategies that enable businesses to sustain consistent growth rather than experiencing cycles of boom and bust. Led by Airbnb’s experienced Chief Business Officer, it offers valuable insights into financial discipline, strategic expansion, and operational systems crucial for long-term success in the tech industry. These lessons are vital for entrepreneurs and established companies aiming to navigate crises and scale effectively.

Key Takeaways

Most businesses grow in bursts — a hot quarter, a lucky break, a viral moment — and then stall. The ones that compound year over year aren’t luckier. They’re built differently.

In this exclusive webinar, Dave Stephenson — Chief Business Officer at Airbnb and former CFO who guided the company through a pandemic that wiped out 80% of its business overnight, led one of the most successful IPOs of 2020, and helped scale Airbnb to its first Fortune 500 ranking — pulls back the curtain on what it actually takes to build a business that keeps growing.

Dave will share the financial discipline, strategic focus, and operating systems that separate companies on a consistent growth curve from those trapped in boom-and-bust cycles.

What you’ll learn:

How to lead through crisis without losing ground

When to expand beyond your core

Why Airbnb’s biggest revenue wins came from its smallest changes

How to scale globally while staying locally relevant

How to use big moments to build long-term momentum

This is a rare opportunity to learn from one of the most experienced operators in tech — an executive who has navigated a startup through crisis, public markets, and sustained global expansion, and is now driving Airbnb’s next chapter of growth.

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