Then, without warning, you’re evicted from the room you paid for before you can finish your early afternoon martini. The decision precipitated an epic and unceremonious collapse for a multibillion dollar startup that was once being hailed as a potential rival to Airbnb. And it couldn’t have happened in more embarrassing fashion: stranding, or at least majorly inconveniencing, travelers just ahead of Thanksgiving. Sonder offered short-term rentals for properties it owned, instead of offering rentals controlled by a third-party, like on Airbnb’s marketplace. It was no longer just “Sonder,” but became “Sonder by Marriott Bonvoy.”The agreement was supposed to last up to 20 years.