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Their take is nowhere near $1 billion in annual revenue.

It would imply they're taking a thousand dollars in sales or so per listing per year at this point. That would more than require every listing be sold out at all times.



> It would imply they're taking a thousand dollars in sales or so per listing per year at this point. That would more than require every listing be sold out at all times.

I don't follow.

Their take is ~10%, so $1,000 of revenue for them requires $10,000 in annual bookings. If every listing is listed 100% of the time, that would imply an average rate of $27/night. (Highly unlikely.)


Seems incidental to me that money is technically going to their bank account(s) while the payments are being processed.


Actually, it is near $1B. Their gross is in the billions.




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