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How I Got Here - Inside stories behind innovation and startups in travel

Kevin May / David Litwak

How I Got Here - Inside stories behind innovation and startups in travel

A weekly Business, Entrepreneur and Technology podcast
 1 person rated this podcast
How I Got Here - Inside stories behind innovation and startups in travel

Kevin May / David Litwak

How I Got Here - Inside stories behind innovation and startups in travel

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How I Got Here - Inside stories behind innovation and startups in travel

Kevin May / David Litwak

How I Got Here - Inside stories behind innovation and startups in travel

A weekly Business, Entrepreneur and Technology podcast
 1 person rated this podcast
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There are not many startups that manage to sign a partnership agreement with a big brand before they even launch.And there are perhaps even fewer new businesses that get details written into the same deal that include how an exit via an acquisi
Dean Donovan has one foot in the past and, without doubt, one foot in the future.After a five-year career at the Bain consultancy, Donovan and his business partner (Brian Flynn) played central roles in 2004 to the creation and backing of Volari
Stepping into the hot seat of a family-run business that has been operating since the 1920s must be a fairly daunting task.That's what Brett Tollman in 2000 when he became CEO of The Travel Corporation - one of the oldest groups of companies in
The unconventional stories of a company's founding are often the most interesting - rather than the fairly formulaic idea-when-traveling-Y-Combinator-seed-investment-route.After studies overseas, Richard Valtr was back in his home country of th
HolidayPirates was born in 2012 - essentially as a travel hack for people to find cheap air tickets.This came about after co-founder Sebastian Kaatz (now the companys vice president of special products and projects) got increasingly frustrated
Alex Cruz admits that his career has been centered around people "betting on me" as a leader of businesses.During the course of over 30 years, Cruz worked for American Airlines and Sabre in the 1990s before a brief stint in the world of managem
John Guscic is one of the increasingly rare breeds in the travel industry these days.He's an unusually straight-talking company executive who has been in the sector for many years, from the world of global distribution systems to, now, online t
The formation of Travel + Leisure Co. in January this year marked an important milestone in the career trajectory of its president Noah Brodsky.The new organization, which came about after Wyndham Destinations acquired the Travel + Leisure bran
A common thread in Joah Searman's origin story is one of countering adversity.Localeur was born in 2013 with a mission to help people discover and share the best local places to "eat, drink and play" in destinations around the world.A tough mar
Ride-hailing services such as Grab, Uber and Lyft have captured a disproportionate amount of attention since their respective launches.It's easy to say this because Spain-based Cabify has fairly quietly gone about its business and created a wid
Apple Leisure Group is a major seller of tickets, packages and hotels across multiple brands.The company was formed by way of a number of mergers and acquisitions, including most recently a deal to combine with the Mark Travel Corporation.The h
Rolf Schromgens was broke and scarred from the experience of a previous startup when he finally sat down with his co-founders and created Trivago.The company, which is now one of the leading hotel metasearch sites in the market, was built on th
Rami Zeidan is a founder on a mission.After working in the finance and real estate worlds for the early part of his career, including overseeing such activities for Starwood, Zeidan took the plunge into the operational part of the equation and
Greg O'Hara has become an influential player on the travel scene since he joined Sabre in the 1990s.He admits to quitting roles after falling out with management  - or getting fired - on a number of occasions in the intervening years before cre
Duffel has generated a fair amount of buzz since it came on the scene in 2017.In part, this was due to a strategy to try and keep "stealthy" during its early phase of building a next-generation airline distribution platform.It eventually emerge
There are not too many two childhood friends who ventured into different worlds of work and then came back to form a startup in the travel industry.But Julian Stiefel and Julian Weselek of Tourlane did exactly that and now, half a decade on, To
Avi Brosh was a successful real estate executive before he became passionate about hospitality.But that shift into the hotel sector was not driven by a desire to create identikit properties at the budget end of the market or, indeed, identikit
Atle Skalleberg's career so far has been a combination of being in the right place at the right time, smart decisions and perseverance.After arriving in the U.S. from Norway, he eventually took a job at StudentUniverse, prepared to do anything
It's not the most well-trodden path in online travel - a producer on the hit The Daily Show With John Stewart to CEO of a tours and activities business.But it's one that Jamie Wong took when she launched Vayable, pivoting from the world of tele
The concept of upmarket hostel accommodation was, some argue, fairly alien in the youth travel sector until fairly recently.Generator Hostels was a single-property brand in London, launched in the mid-1990s, but was considered the perfect place
In one respect, ToursByLocals is a classic startup story.It was the brainchild of CEO Paul Melhus and chief technology officer Dave Vincent, with them having observed how the tour guide scene was handled during a trip to China in the mid-2000s.
As digitalization of the airline sector has increased exponentially over the last decade, a number of new business have emerged to compete alongside the existing giants.One such brand is Flyr, based in the U.S. and founded by Alex Mans.The comp
The modern story of HRS (Hotel Reservation Service) is one of geographic growth, expansion into new business areas and a handing over of the baton from father to son.But the company has its roots going back to 1972, when it was created in Colog
It takes a lot to change a mindset that has prevailed for decades. Bikes (and scooters) are, for many people, mostly a thing of enjoyment.But Lime had other ideas, driven by a desire to rethink the bike as something that can be used for both le
Lastminute.com Group's name didn't start out that way.BravoFly Rumbo switched its corporate identity after an acquisition of the former European darling of the online travel world in 2015.Spearheading the business since 2004 is Fabio Cannavale,
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