Airbnb’s Shiny $100 Billion Valuation and 14 Other Top Travel Stories This Week
Photo Credit: (From top and counter-clockwise) Airbnb co-founders Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia and Nate Blecharczyk participated virtually in the Nasdaq bell opening ceremony on December 10, 2020. Airbnb
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In Skift's top travel stories this week, we covered the Airbnb IPO from every angle. There were other stories, too, including Google launching new tools for destinations and hotels, a road warrior who's flown three dozen times since September, a property manager picking up Stay Alfred scraps.
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Can Airbnb Sustain a $100 Billion Valuation? New Skift Research: Thursday was a historic day for Airbnb and the travel industry at large. Airbnb is a excellent business, but is it a $100 billion business?
Airbnb Share Price More Than Doubles in First Day of Historic Public Debut: Kudos to Airbnb for a dramatic comeback in its initial public offering. But the valuation, propelled by euphoric investors in a hot IPO market, was divorced from reality.
What Airbnb’s Journey From Start to IPO Has Meant to Skift, and Me: Skift since its own launch was the first media outlet to ask hard questions of Airbnb, and it has been amazing to document that journey of the
