Ryan Anderson

About Ryan Anderson

I failed at two companies before I found the STR industry. Then I couldn’t leave.It probably helps that I was built for setbacks. I was born without ears and spent the first two decades of my life in and out of surgery. My friends called me Fearless Earless. I’ll take it.In late 2013 I stumbled into the Airbnb ecosystem and launched what would become a 10-year company build. By January 2014 I had co-founded the Los Angeles Short Term Rental Alliance — because operators needed someone in the room when regulators started making decisions that would reshape the entire industry. Two years later my peers elected me chairman. I served in that role until 2018.What followed was two VC-backed companies. Hostwise uberized the back-of-house operations that every STR operator quietly drowns in — housekeeping, laundry, linens, toiletries.My STR management company launched as SmplyTrvl in 2013, evolved and rebranded as Sojourn in 2018 — multinational, operating across 4 countries, on track for $5M in revenue in 2020.Here’s what most people get wrong about what happened next: we weren’t flying blind. We hired a dedicated revenue manager, built a custom model, and used Beyond Pricing. More seriously than most operators at our stage.And we were still 2-3 weeks behind the market every time it moved.Not because we weren’t trying. Because human-powered revenue management has a speed limit — and by the time the data showed up, the booking window had already shifted.The market was growing fast enough that we could absorb the lag. Then COVID hit. And the market stopped being forgiving.COVID didn’t just end the company. It almost ended me.I joined Prometheus iQ first as a founding advisor — because I believed in what they were building before I decided I wanted to be the one selling it.That full picture is exactly why I’m now Head of Growth. Not because I believe in revenue software — because I built the best revenue system available at the time and watched it fall short when the stakes were highest.We call it Agentic Revenue Intelligence. Not a better dashboard. Not another dynamic pricing layer. A system that watches your portfolio and tells you what to do before the revenue window closes — at a speed no human-powered model can match.If we’d had this at Sojourn, our story would have looked different.If you manage a serious STR portfolio and your revenue decisions are still running at human speed — I want to talk.https://calendly.com/ryan-prometheusiq/30min?utm_source=linkedin

Experience

1. Founding Head of Growth

   Prometheus Iq

   Apr 2026 — Present · Austin, TX, US

Education

• Brigham Young University

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Economics, Pre-Medicine

  2004 — 2007

Skills

• Valuation
• Strategic Planning
• Finance
• Non-Profits
• Equities
• Business Strategy
• Entrepreneurship
• Strategy
• Sales
• Business Development
• Capital Markets
• Portfolio Management
• Start-Ups
• Management
• Investments
• Fundraising