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Jost says misterb&b is the world's largest gay hotelier across 135 countries
“We are the largest gay hotelier in the world, and we are giving the opportunity to our community to connect together in 135 countries around the world, and to travel safe without any discrimination.”
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Jost: misterb&b charges 4% host fees and 12% traveler fees per transaction
“We are taking four percent on the host side and 12% on the travel side.”
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Jost: misterb&b's average booking is 3 nights and costs around $300
“The average booking, it's the three three nights, so it's around 300 dollars.”
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Jost: misterb&b has raised $5 million USD in total capital
“In total, we raised five millions of dollar USD.”
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Jost: misterb&b has around 80,000 hosts across 135 countries
“So today we have around 80,000 hosts over 135 countries that listed their place on the website.”
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Jost leaks undisclosed metric: misterb&b generates 3,000 monthly bookings
“And so we are not communicating on this number, but we have around 3000 bookings per month today.”
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Jost: misterb&b Targets $1.3M in Revenue for 2016
“Yes, we plan to do 1.3 million in the growth in revenue this year.”
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Jost: 40% of misterb&b's business comes from repeat customers
“And today 40% of our business is coming from repeaters, meaning that people really love the websites.”
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Jost: Planet Series was Europe's largest TV site and sold to AlloCiné
“So it was a website dedicated to TV series, and it was the largest website to TV series in Europe, and I sold it to the French equivalent of IMDB, which called Allocine.”
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Jost: Planet Series was acquired for approximately $1 million
“At that stage, it was like a one million of dollars.”
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Jost: 70% of misterb&b users travel solo and book shared apartments
“That's why that 70% of our users are traveling alone and are booking mostly shared apartment on the website.”
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Jost: misterb&b Processed Around $3M in Bookings in 2015
“In 2015, we were around three million.”
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Jost: misterb&b has around 300,000 email list subscribers
“Right now we have around 300 K people on the email list.”
