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Austin: Branch lured Pinterest, Airbnb, and Etsy from Yozio, forcing its shutdown
“There was a company in our space when we first started that actually had Pinterest, Airbnb, and Etsy using them. When we had just launched literally brand new, super buggy product within a year and a half, all those companies were using us and that company had…”
Airbnb's gross booking volume is approaching $100 million per day
“It's probably close to it's getting, it's approaching a hundred million dollars a day. I would say going through Airbnb.”
Robin: Real estate lenders now underwrite Airbnb revenue for property purchases
“Lenders are starting to lend off of Airbnb on a purchase, which they've only been doing on refis.”
Keene: Airbnb Superhost status doubles your chances of getting booked
“You're twice as much, quite as twice as a chance of renting your place out if you're a super host, because then they basically advertise for you.”
Keene: Airbnb property management industry standard fees are 20% to 30%
“Industry standard is 20 to 30% on management companies based in, on Airbnb.”
Singh: Vid Camera Auto-Generates Three-Second Video Memories From Consumer Metadata
“So we basically pull in that simple text metadata and auto generate three second video memories from that data and put it all into a calendar user interface.”
Volset: Airbnb raised $600K for its Series A post-YC
“They actually just to give you a context for how things have changed, they did what they then called their Series A, which later got rebranded as a Series C because there wasn't such a thing, I think, as a Series C at the time. But they raised 600,000 dollars …”
Keene: 80% of Airbnb hosts are not running it as a business
“80% of everybody that has a listing at Airbnb aren't doing it for business.”