Rental car company sputters? Kyte falls out of the sky? What kind of metaphor should I have used to describe the spectacular bust of a company once touted itself as the next Hertz?<\/p>\n
As tempting as some NY Post<\/em> wordplay could have been, the amount of cash that they burned through was just too large to not put in the title.<\/p>\n Oh well. Kyte is now floating its way to the great airport parking lot in the sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rental car company sputters? Kyte falls out of the sky? What kind of metaphor should I have used to describe the spectacular bust of a company once touted itself as the next Hertz? As tempting as some NY Post wordplay could have been, the amount of cash that they burned through was just too large […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[147],"class_list":{"0":"post-4230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bankruptcies","7":"tag-kyte"},"acf":{"sources":[{"author":"Sean O'Kane","publication":"TechCrunch","icon":4081,"url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/08\/15\/kyte-which-billed-itself-as-the-best-competitor-to-hertz-shuts-down\/","article_title":"Kyte, which billed itself as the \u2018best competitor to Hertz,\u2019 shuts down"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.profitless.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.profitless.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.profitless.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.profitless.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.profitless.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4230"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.profitless.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4232,"href":"https:\/\/www.profitless.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4230\/revisions\/4232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.profitless.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.profitless.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.profitless.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}