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Airbnb Hits Hockey Stick Growth: 10 Million Nights Booked, 200K Active Properties

It looks like Airbnb, the online marketplace for listing and booking short-term housing accommodations, has officially accelerated out of startup mode and into a full-on big business. The San Francisco-based company will announce today that it has reached a major milestone: 10 million guest nights have been booked worldwide through the site since it was founded in August 2008. That number in itself is very impressive, but the trajectory with which it reach it is even more notable — at this time last year, Airbnb had yet to reach 2...

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Published By: Tech Crunch - Tuesday, 19 June, 2012

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