HomeAway
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HomeAway was a vacation rental marketplace. It operated through 50 websites in 23 languages through which it offered rentals of cabins, condos, castles, villas, barns, and farmhouses.
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Company type | Subsidiary |
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Industry | Travel |
Founded | February 2005; 19 years ago (2005-02)[1] |
Founders | Brian Sharples Carl Shepherd |
Fate | acquired, rebranded to VRBO |
Headquarters | , |
Key people | John Kim (President) Trent York (CFO) Jeff Hurst (CCO) Tina Weyand (CPO) John J. Ostlund (CTO) Steve Davis (CIO) Jeff Mosler (CSO) |
Services | Vacation rentals |
Revenue | $446.8 million (2014)[2] |
Parent | Expedia Group |
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Founded in February 2005 and headquartered in Austin, Texas,[3] the company became a publicly traded company in 2011.[4] Expedia Group acquired HomeAway on December 15, 2015 for $3.9 billion in cash and stock.[3] In 2020 HomeAway and VRBO websites were rebranded as single Vrbo website.[5]