This is not your typical job description. My name is Ari, founder of Extenteam. I got into the short term rental industry by mistake while I was getting my undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering at USC in California back in 2009.

After running short term rental management companies for more than a decade, I started Extenteam, a staffing and proptech company that helps short term rental operators. We grew to a team of 430 people and more than 10MM ARR, but we also became complacent. We became stagnant. We focused on the wrong things and instead of executing we spent too much time strategizing.

The people we had were great people, but not the right people for the type of company I want Extenteam to be. Everything changed at our South of France offsite in October 2025.

We decided that while our dedicated team member unit remains relevant in the hospitality and real estate industry, the future of the short term rental industry will be shaped by AI and ...