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Mauricio Prieto

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Travel Tech Essentialist #197: Human Leverage

🗺️ Travel Tech Essentialist Copilot, revamped over two weeks, aids travel founders with insights from six years of newsletters, 300+ podcasts, and experiences like building eDreams. Stay22 raised $122M, growing from negative revenue to processing over $1B annually. Wheel the World raised $3.5M, totaling $11M Series A, to improve accessibility data. Booking.com invested $700M in AI, reacting to a 17% stock drop and aiming for proactive travel management. 15-18% of OTA sessions now include ChatGPT interactions.
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Tryp.com: Beyond the Search Bar

📈 Co-founder and CEO of Tryp.com, André Rangel, emphasizes algorithmic discovery over traditional search in travel planning, catering to Gen Z and Millennials. Tryp.com, with over 6 million users, derives 50% of sales from users who didn’t search for specific destinations. Utilizing a graph database, they compute prices for 80 million tickets across 7,000+ locations, achieving a 2x higher conversion rate. Their decentralized content strategy lowers CAC to under €5, with 70% revenue from mobile.
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