{"id":7876,"date":"2020-03-23T09:17:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T15:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7876"},"modified":"2020-03-23T09:17:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T15:17:14","slug":"a-look-at-airbnbs-business-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7876","title":{"rendered":"A Look at AirBnB\u2019s Business Model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehftguy.com\/2020\/03\/23\/will-airbnb-go-bankrupt-and-when\/\">The HFT Guy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What\u2019s wrong with AirBnb?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>AirBnb is reportedly around 15000 employees with 3 billions in revenues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>They are as large as related conglomerates comprising tens of companies, except AirBnb is a single company running a single website!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>They don\u2019t even operate in as many countries or currencies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Needless to say their strategy has been to burn as much VC cash as possible and hire has many employees as possible. A standard strategy to inflate valuation and raise even more money.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The HFT Guy: What\u2019s wrong with AirBnb? AirBnb is reportedly around 15000 employees with 3 billions in revenues. They are as large as related conglomerates comprising tens of companies, except AirBnb is a single company running a single website! They don\u2019t even operate in as many countries or currencies. Needless to say their strategy has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7877,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7876\/revisions\/7877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}