HomeAway CEO Challenges Airbnb to Do Initial Public Offering


Skift Take

HomeAway should be careful what it wishes for in a potential Airbnb IPO -- especially when HomeAway has chosen to give scant attention to the younger generation in favor of wooing the older crowd.
HomeAway CEO Brian Sharples said he's hearing rumors about rival Airbnb doing an initial  public offering and he'd welcome the prospect. Asked about Airbnb's larger valuation of around $20 billion compared with HomeAway's $2.9 billion valuation give