Airbnb ready to list, but its best years may be behind it

Airbnb ready to list, but its best years may be behind it
Peter Griffin
Of all the companies that have emerged in the ‘sharing economy’, the one I have the most affinity with is the biggest of them all - Airbnb.I’ve stayed at great Airbnb places all over the world and met some fantastic hosts, one of whom was kind enough to courier my MacBook across Portugal when I stupidly left it at her Lisbon apartment. I know several retirees around the country who supplement their pension, and the increasingly meagre interest income from their savings, with booking fees from renting out rooms on Airbnb.They l...

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