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New AirDNA CEO Tries to Brush Away the 'Cobwebs' at Its Property Management Brand

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Dennis Schaal
December 6th, 2024 at 5:41 PM EST
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What if market analytics firm CoStar launched a property management system for hotels? That's the play that AirDNA is making in the short-term rentals industry. AirDNA will go at it with its own data analytics brand as well as its Uplifting brand in the PMS arena.
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Rohit Bezewada, who became AirDNA CEO in August, describes himself as a "growth person" – "not a cost-cutting CEO."

AirDNA is a decade-old short-term rental analytics firm, and Bezewada's mission is to scale it in a way similar to what he helped accomplish at Uber. From 2018-2020, under CEOs Travis Kalanick and then Dara Khosrowshahi, Bezewada led business development at Uber's competitive intelligence team, which took part in the launch of the service in 25 markets.

"Similar to Airbnb, Uber was in that phase where we were trying to solve a problem and grow at a material scale," Bezewada told Skift.

Bezewada replaced Demi Horvat as AirDNA's CEO, which has offices in Denver and Barcelona. Both had been operating executives at private equity firm Alpine Investors, which acquired AirDNA in 2022.

Bezewada said Horva

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