Rhetorical Analysis On Joe Gebbia

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Joe Gebbia begins his speech with an interesting hook that captures the audience attention with a narration of an event that happened to him. He then concludes that after all the events of what happened, it actually turned out to be a great outcome. The person who he was scared that he could not trust, a total stranger, turned out to be a long-term friend of his. It draws the audience in as it's interesting to keep listening until the end of the story to know exactly how it plays out. The thesis of this speech is at the conclusion of his work, "Luck and timing aside, I've learned that you can take the components of trust, and you can design for that." Because his thesis was stated at the end of his speech, it had the audience wondering instead …show more content…

This is a good recap, as the thesis of the speech is about how they designed Airbnb for people to trust. Then he finishes it off by claiming that if you understand the value of trust you can design it to fit in with the essentials of forming Airbnb, which is a great summary-value, going over all the information he just covered in the conclusion statement. His exit goes over how if you can design things for humans to trust, what's to stop you at this point? His conclusion was thorough and understanding, better than any of the information he had spoken about above. It gives an understanding of exactly what he was trying to tell his audience and used a good recap and summary to state his claims in the body.
During his speech, he has a very low usage of transitions between his sentences. When he does use them they're small and hardly noticeable, making some of his information clustered into one big thought pattern. Some of the transitions he uses are : by the way, usually, and, since, eventually, instead, in this case, of course. He should have put a big more emphasis on the transitions between thoughts to help with the flow of the speech

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