Eric Breon is the founder and CEO of Fairly.com, a vacation rental management platform that emerged from stealth in December 2024 with $10.1 million in pre-seed funding. He previously founded Vacasa in 2009 and led the company for over a decade, growing it into the largest vacation rental management company in the U.S. with 25,000 homes under management, 7,000 employees, and a 2021 public listing that valued the company at $4.4 billion. Breon has a background in analytics and venture capital and is widely credited with bringing modern yield management and electronic access control to the vacation rental industry. At Fairly.com, he is rebuilding the property management model around individualized care, a gig-economy caretaker network, and AI-powered automation of back-office operations.<...