Airbnb-Backed Rental Manager Lyric Restructures to Focus Just on Key Cities


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Restructuring in itself isn't necessarily the worst thing in the world for a company, although fired employees might not see it that way. This is at least the second recent and high-profile Airbnb investment. The other, with Oyo, doesn't appear to be proceeding according to plan, either.

Lyric, the Airbnb-backed rental manager of multifamily apartments, hit the pause button on its growth strategy, cut its staff, and will focus on its best-performing markets. The Real Deal reported  that San Francisco-based Lyric, which managed some 6