{"id":977238,"date":"2022-02-05T08:03:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T08:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/05\/hopper-first-came-for-expedia-airbnb-is-next\/"},"modified":"2022-02-05T08:03:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T08:03:35","slug":"hopper-first-came-for-expedia-airbnb-is-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/05\/hopper-first-came-for-expedia-airbnb-is-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopper first came for Expedia. Airbnb is next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fredric Lalonde, CEO of travel tech unicorn Hopper, doesn&#8217;t want to be the next Airbnb &#8211; a company whose name he purposely avoids uttering in conversation. &#8220;Pinduoduo,&#8221; he answers without hesitation when asked which company he&#8217;d rather emulate, citing the China-based mobile marketplace that was founded in 2015 and has since swallowed up vast tracts [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fredric Lalonde, CEO of travel tech unicorn Hopper, doesn&#8217;t want to be the next Airbnb &#8211; a company whose name he purposely avoids uttering in conversation. &#8220;Pinduoduo,&#8221; he answers without hesitation when asked which company he&#8217;d rather emulate, citing the China-based mobile marketplace that was founded in 2015 and has since swallowed up vast tracts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3894],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-977238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}