{"id":121,"date":"2020-10-12T19:57:44","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T19:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/box5298.temp.domains\/~mediasmi\/\/?p=121"},"modified":"2020-11-22T23:04:02","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T23:04:02","slug":"how-airbnb-pulled-back-from-the-brink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mediasmix.com\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"How Airbnb Pulled Back From the Brink"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"482\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mediasmix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/01.jpg?resize=640%2C482&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mediasmix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/01.jpg?w=653&amp;ssl=1 653w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mediasmix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/01.jpg?resize=300%2C226&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Residents were searching for vacation rentals in neighboring towns and cities, so they didn\u2019t have to fly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People wanted to book entire homes, meaning Airbnb could gain from travelers shunning hotels and their shared spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By June, the company had redesigned its website and app so its algorithm would show prospective travelers everything from cabins to lavish beach houses near where they lived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In August, more than half of bookings made were for stays within 300 miles of the guest\u2019s location, according to the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Airbnb is expected to list shares in late November or December at a valuation of $30 billion or more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company will debut in the hottest IPO market in years, in which the stock prices of newly public companies have soared and are on track to hit a record for dollars raised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">via wsj.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents were searching for vacation rentals in neighboring towns and cities, so they didn\u2019t have to fly. People wanted to book entire homes, meaning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,97],"tags":[81,91,92,90,86,85,87,88,93,95,83,94,84,89,82,96],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-finance","tag-airbnb","tag-beach","tag-booking","tag-cabin","tag-cities","tag-city","tag-fly","tag-home","tag-ipo","tag-public","tag-rental","tag-stock","tag-town","tag-travel","tag-vacation","tag-wsj"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mediasmix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/01.jpg?fit=653%2C492&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediasmix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediasmix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediasmix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediasmix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediasmix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mediasmix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133,"href":"https:\/\/mediasmix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediasmix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediasmix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediasmix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediasmix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}