An epic fail early in his career taught HomeAway co-founder Brian Sharples that it’s a good idea to hire folks who have a healthy familiarity with failure.
Homeaway has emerged as a controversial and disruptive player in the growing market for online, crow sourced vacation lodging. The complaints coming in are similar to those of other sites such as Airbnb and usually involve a less than thorough homeowner leaving his house in disrepair, however the upsides vastly overcome that, opening a whole new market of properties to travelers, renters and current homeowners struggling under a mountain of debt and disrupting the overpriced and over sanitized hotel industry with anthropologically and ecologically sound alternatives.
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