Selfbook provides hotels with a streamlined booking experience, allowing guests to book directly on the hotel website without leaving for an online travel agency, thus avoiding the 25% commission typically paid to OTAs.

Travel is about human connection and culture; at Selfbook, we aim to provide the hospitality that the industry is meant to deliver.

Before Selfbook, no hotel could accept Apple Pay, but we introduced digital wallets into the industry to streamline the experience.

When we started adding travel experiences to the app, engagement increased by 70%, indicating that people were eager to learn about and book experiences, even though it was challenging to do so on the app due to a lack of proper booking infrastructure.

We aimed to create a seamless booking experience, ensuring users could book a home in three clicks, similar to the ease of using an iPod.

We shifted our vision to make booking a home as easy as booking a hotel, aiming for a three-click process to complete the booking.

Airbnb is the first online marketplace that lets travelers book rooms with locals instead of hotels, which is concise and descriptive, allowing investors to understand what they're building and gauge their excitement.

My first startup aimed to solve the problem I faced as a backpacker by creating a mobile app to book hostels and bed-and-breakfasts.

We were the first site to allow users to book accommodations and pay online through the app, which was a significant innovation at the time.