Taking business travel to the next level: Interview with TravelPerk co-founder and CEO Avi Meir

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05/02/2019

Taking business travel to the next level: Interview with TravelPerk co-founder and CEO Avi Meir

TravelPerk was born in 2015 and has its headquarters in Barcelona. Through the website, companies can book trips for their colleagues in 10 minutes. First, however, hours were needed to make the same work; Search for trips, book, manage. This website reduces the cost of all trips by 20%.

They have already joined Uber and Transferwise with TravelPerk. In 2018, 38 million euros were achieved in a round of financing and its location in the world seems to be very good. In May Avi Meir will be held at the EU-Startups Summit. However, until arriving this date, you can read here Barcelona, TravelPerk's future and business trips:

The bill has received significant revenues over the last three years, claiming Saas100's belief that it is one of the fastest growing companies in Europe. Their goals are to create a product that grows slowly, increase its teammate, improve its usability and provide an excellent experience for business travelers. They will start from Europe and then they will go to the United States to Meir.

One of the most important features of the website is the management of all the business trips that can be carried out on the website. "People who manage travel are based on service and not technology and that is a great mistake." Also, thanks to TravelPerk, you have the chance to get acquainted with the full cost at the moment, which greatly contributes to the tightening or reduction of budgets.

Another important feature of TravelPerk is that the entire work group works 24/7 days and is in doubt. In addition, one of the things that made the website was clear: functionality. The most important thing is to work properly, not just the aesthetic side, for example. Meir says that 60% of his time is hiring people, because people are very important for their work.

Also talks about Barcelona's conversation in eu-startups.com; it was a coincidence to stay in this city, but it's been very enjoyable at the moment because it has a high quality of life and there are good opportunities for start-ups.

Finally, he talks about the future. In his words, "our leisure travel is very easy to book (this sector has been developing for some years now). Now, our goal is to have business trips.2 It is estimated that there are no virtual users of 1.5 billion virtual. Thanks to technology, everything is changing and we have the ability to make things easier, we do not have the chance to lose it!

Source: eu-startups.com