STR Global Unlocked with Simon Lehmann: Unfiltered knowledge for the short term rental industry
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Carl Shepherd is the Co-Founder of HomeAway, the marketplace that helped define the modern short-term rental industry. Before Airbnb became a household name, Carl and his co-founder Brian Sharples built HomeAway into a global platform that changed how people rent and manage vacation homes. The company went public in 2011 and was later acquired by Expedia for $3.9 billion. If you want to understand how today’s OTA landscape was built, and where it’s breaking, this episode is essential listenin...
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Carl Shepherd is the Co-Founder of HomeAway, the marketplace that helped define the modern short-term rental industry. Before Airbnb became a household name, Carl and his co-founder Brian Sharples built HomeAway into a global platform that changed how people rent and manage vacation homes. The company went public in 2011 and was later acquired by Expedia for $3.9 billion. If you want to understand how today’s OTA landscape was built, and where it’s breaking, this episode is essential listenin...
001: 6 Hot Takes on the Future and Growing Pains of Short-Term Rentals with Simon Lehmann
STR Global Unlocked with Simon Lehmann: Unfiltered knowledge for the short term rental industry
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001: 6 Hot Takes on the Future and Growing Pains of Short-Term Rentals with Simon Lehmann
“Short-term rental is mainstream hospitality. It makes up 14% of global hospitality. And mainstream industries must operate by a different set of rules.” — Simon Lehmann The short-term rental industry is at a turning point. Regulation is tightening, OTAs are shifting power, and owners are demanding more transparency. Technology and AI promise efficiency but raise new risks. Safety sits at the center of it all. This is the roadmap industry leaders will be referencing all year. Simo...
STR Global Unlocked with Simon Lehmann: Unfiltered knowledge for the short term rental industry
Carl Shepherd is the Co-Founder of HomeAway, the marketplace that helped define the modern short-term rental industry. Before Airbnb became a household name, Carl and his co-founder Brian Sharples built HomeAway into a global platform that changed how people rent and manage vacation homes. The company went public in 2011 and was later acquired by Expedia for $3.9 billion. If you want to understand how today’s OTA landscape was built, and where it’s breaking, this episode is essential listenin...
