--- title: "Digits: Airbnb’s mixed review from Wall Street, and more newsy numbers - The Hustle" description: "Plus: Restaurants are sick of you bailing on reservations, Pixar’s big rebound, and more." image: https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/hubfs/The%20Hustle%20News/Assets/Images/1028369939-httpsthdaily.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.comfinal_size-Digits_8_7_20230806235004.webp --- # Digits: Airbnb’s mixed review from Wall Street, and more newsy numbers ![Jacob Cohen](https://thehustle.co/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/IMG_5670-1-modified-768x768.png?width=48&height=48&name=IMG_5670-1-modified-768x768.png) [Jacob Cohen](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/author/jacob-cohen) [Jacob Cohen Twitter profile ](https://twitter.com/ImJacobCohen) Published: August 07, 2023 Updated: October 11, 2023 **1)** Even a house full of bookings can’t prevent Wall Street from demanding a refund. Case in point: Airbnb stock dipped after the company reported bookings [**rose ~11% YoY**](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/03/airbnb-abnb-q2-earnings-report-2023.html). Packing 115m+ nights and experiences booked into Q2 sounds as good on paper as a four-star “Cozy Bungalow” — unless you’ve got Wall Street’s high expectations. In their case, Airbnb’s quarterly numbers sounded more like a glorified garden shed with a leaky faucet. ![Digits: Airbnb’s mixed review from Wall Street, and more newsy numbers](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/hs-fs/hubfs/The%20Hustle%20News/Assets/Images/1028369939-httpsthdaily.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.comfinal_size-Digits_8_7_20230806235004.webp?width=595&height=400&name=1028369939-httpsthdaily.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.comfinal_size-Digits_8_7_20230806235004.webp) **2) **With today’s diners being as flaky as phyllo dough, restaurants are increasingly turning to reservation deposits that are applied to bills or refunded after meals. Per OpenTable data, [**28% of Americans**](https://ny.eater.com/2023/8/3/23817542/reservation-fees-deposits-resy-opentable-nyc) admitted to being no-shows at least once in 2021. **3) **The hobby games segment (think: trading card games, board games, card and dice games, and role playing games) seems to be playing its cards right. A spike in popularity during the pandemic has held up nicely, with North American sales up 7% last year, [**reaching $2.89B in 2022**](https://icv2.com/articles/markets/view/54762/hobby-game-sales-up-7-2022). That’s up from $2.69B in 2021, $2.03B in 2020, and $1.68B in 2019. **4) **Pixar’s *Elemental* began as a slow box office flicker but appears to have turned up the heat, clearing** **[**the $400m mark**](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/elemental-weathers-box-office-storm-1235549499/) and becoming the first animated movie with original IP to do so since before covid. BTW, by “slow box office flicker,” we mean it opened to just $29.6m, the studio’s [worst](https://thehustle.co/pixar-s-box-office-mojo-is-out-of-its-element/) opening ever when adjusted for inflation. 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