Catégorie : Strategy

  • Just wrapped up my visit to Phocuswright Europe. | Lennart Dobravsky

    Just wrapped up my visit to Phocuswright Europe. A couple quick takeaways: 1. AI was (unsurprisingly) everywhere. Tons of speculation on the future of travel planning & booking, but honestly, no one knows what’s coming, just that big changes are ahead. The most interesting / contrarian take I heard came from Mauricio Prieto during his…

  • Fwd: Travel’s next startup opportunity

    Hi there, Busy week for many of us in Travel and Mobility Tech: Phocuswright Europe in Barcelona just wrapped up. Two spontaneous takeaways from our team on the ground: AI was everywhere. As expected, everyone’s talking about it, but no one really knows what it actually means for the future of travel booking. Hype first,…

  • Fish Food: Episode 647 – Superagency: Amplifying Human Capability with AI

    Fish Food: Episode 647 – Superagency: Amplifying Human Capability with AI

    AI extending human, how AI is changing jobs, ChatGPT for business, WPP’s 30,000 AI agents, how social media has evolved, and what we lose with AI art. This week’s provocation: On amplifying human capability through AI There’s something very attractive about the idea of ‘superagency’, the emerging concept that sits at the intersection of AI,…

  • The Hotel Company of the Future (What Happens When You Ditch the Three-Legged Stool)

    The Hotel Company of the Future (What Happens When You Ditch the Three-Legged Stool)

    Imagine a hotel company that doesn’t rely on a Frankenstein-esque business model cobbled together from a franchise, a management company, and a brand – each with their own agenda, their own KPIs, and absolutely zero alignment. Imagine instead a sleek, modern, hospitality-first, customer-centric organization that actually makes sense. So yes, that’s what the Hotel Company…

  • Amazon kept getting complaints – but the executive team didn’t know why, so Jeff Bezos called customer services on speaker in front of everyone… | Joseph Cass

    Amazon kept getting complaints – but the executive team didn’t know why, so Jeff Bezos called customer services on speaker in front of everyone… | Joseph Cass

    Amazon kept getting complaints – but the executive team didn’t know why, so Jeff Bezos called customer services on speaker in front of everyone… In the late 1990’s, Amazon was growing fast. Every week, Jeff Bezos gathered his leadership team for their most important ritual: the Weekly Business Review. One day, the head of customer…

  • Live from the Hospitality Operator Forum 2025

    Live from the Hospitality Operator Forum 2025

    Hospitality, 30 years of transformation – Vanguélis Panayotis, CEO MKG Consulting and Hospitality ON We’ve come a long way in 30 years, and we’ve helped to structure our sector. We have brought transparency and confidence to the market. Today, just as 30 years ago, we are faced with a great deal of uncertainty. In our…

  • Chat is the new browser, of course

    Chat is the new browser, of course

    If you can’t talk to it, it’s broken. This has almost nothing to do with the post but I love the dada flavor of it. I have no idea either. One of the things that’s novel about the AI moment is that we can now talk to our software and tell it what we want.…

  • Trading Margin for Moat: Why the Forward Deployed Engineer Is the Hottest Job in Startups | Andreessen Horowitz

    Trading Margin for Moat: Why the Forward Deployed Engineer Is the Hottest Job in Startups | Andreessen Horowitz

    It turns out dethroning Salesforce isn’t as simple as spinning up an OpenAI-enabled voice agent. Companies attempting to replace core workflows owned by legacy systems of record with lightweight, wrapper-like integrations too often see their agents break or fail outright. Paradoxically, we’re witnessing explosive growth for complicated AI products in sales, support, and legal. Enterprise…

  • Meet the new Gigi: An AI media manager for the Amazon DSP – Gigi

    When we publicly launched Gigi in June of last year, Gigi emerged as the only company to harmonize two foundational Amazon ad tech products—its DSP and Amazon Marketing Cloud—to help marketers buy and measure Streaming TV Ads. Since then, we’ve managed tens of millions of Streaming TV ad spend for customers.Every customer and every prospect…

  • 10 Hotel Truths for 2025 (That Actually Matter)

    We’re halfway through 2025, and it’s time to call it like it is. Hospitality has seen a lot; some great ideas, a lot of noise, and more than a few flops. If you’re still holding on to brand updates that mean nothing or marketing copy about « experiences » with no soul, you’re not just behind, you’re…