Alex Cartmell – Co-founder and CTO of HopPlotter
Build products that you are passionate about. Build products that you want to use yourself, or at least that someone close to you would want to use. Alex Cartmell, 24,…
travel
Travel is one of those industries where the product is the experience. That makes it beautiful and terrifying to build in. The founders in this section have done it anyway. Hotels. Travel tech. Tour companies. Booking platforms. And everything else that gets people from where they are to where they want to be.
These interviews cover the full travel landscape. Hospitality. Adventure travel. Business travel. Travel technology. Sustainable tourism. The intersection of wanderlust and logistics, which is where all travel companies live.
The founders here are honest about the unique challenges of the industry. Seasonality. Reviews that can make or break you. The complexity of operating across borders, time zones, and regulatory environments. And the fact that one pandemic can shut down everything overnight. These are resilient people.
You’ll find insights on building travel brands, customer experience design, leveraging technology in hospitality, and the art of selling something intangible. If you’re in the travel industry, building travel tools, or just fascinated by how the world moves, these conversations take you places. Pun intended, but the insights are serious.
Cristian Munteanu – Founder of Qalendra Inc
Get on stage and present your business to the world, especially if you’re in B2B. Meet business partners, explain what you do, be brave and memorable. Say clearly “come talk…
Justin Effron – Co-founder and CEO of ALICE
The most important thing I’ve learned is to prioritize my to-do list and focus on just getting the top five things done. Justin Effron is co-founder and CEO of ALICE,…
Artom Konovalov – Founder of Corner
For me sleep is very important and once you lose it you start making bad decisions. Bill Clinton once said – “In my long political career, most of the mistakes…
Emmett Brady – Co-founder of WorldEscape
Stay 1000% focused on your goal and let nothing and no one sidetrack you. Over two decades, between 1980 and 2000, brother and sister team Emmett and Deirdre Brady modernized…
Grainne Kelly – Founder and Inventor of BubbleBum
We focus on resolving the problem rather than finding a product. All our ideas are generated from genuine problems expressed by parents. Grainne Kelly is a former travel agent who…
Dmitry Romanyukha – CEO and Co-founder of JetMe
If you listen to 100 opinions, together with yours… take it into account to make a good decision. Dmitry began his career in the world of advertising, working at one…
Eli Blatt – Founder of GOcase
Ruthless prioritization. There’s so many different things at any given time that you could be working on. When you’re a small company, it’s doubly important to practice ruthless prioritization to…
Bill Rinehart – CEO and Founder of DUFL
Focus on what’s best for the customer. A groundbreaking serial tech entrepreneur and leader, Bill Rinehart has built and orchestrated successful exits for 5 companies in 15 years, serving as…
Nathan Zielke – Founder of DreamCheaper.com
Target the long term vision and then make it happen, the rest can and will be sorted out while on the way, but keep the same clear target all times….
Melissa Muldoon – La Studentessa Matta
Interact in social media. Set up a blog site and engage your customers. Set up Instagram and Twitter accounts and post information frequently that is useful and interesting to your…
Jasper Mutsaerts – Founder of Bohemian birds
[quote style=”boxed”]Collect. Connect. Conquer. Collecting ideas through brainstorm sessions. Connecting to people that are able to execute the ideas. Conquering customers to bring ideas to “real” life.[/quote] Jasper Mutsaerts is…