Building an Industry-Leading Infrastructure from Scratch

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Vacasa started in 2009 when Eric Breon, Vacasa’s CEO and Co-Founder, sat down at his kitchen table with a laptop, and an idea of how he could solve a fundamental problem in the vacation rental industry. He had the idea that he could create a better vacation experience, while also capitalizing on his family’s vacation home on the Oregon Coast. It was here that Eric taught himself how to program, and using PHP he built out a very basic reservation system for his family’s second home.

Fast forward nine years, where Vacasa now manages over 10,000 second homes and has become the biggest vacation rental company in the United States. Certainly, Vacasa had to stand up from that kitchen table, but what allowed them to grow so fast? What innovations were made to build up from a “kitchen table” reservations system, while boosting the integrity of 10,000 vacation homes? Join Caleb Donegan (Vacasa - VP Digital) and Zac Monahan (Vacasa - Senior Dir. Acquisitions) as we talk vacation rentals, and building an industry-leading infrastructure — from scratch.