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Entrepreneur Stories 4⃣ Inspiration

095: SnapTravel makes traveling a... Snap (with Hussein Fazal) ✈

Entrepreneur Stories 4⃣ Inspiration

Millionaire Interviews Podcast & Sir Austin Peek

Careers, Business:careers, Business

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Hussein Fazal is the CEO & founder of SnapTravel. The company allows you to find and book the best hotel deals over Facebook Messenger and SMS. SnapTravel advisors include the former CEO of Hotels.com and the CTO of Expedia. This Episode is Sponsored By: Square Payroll makes doing your books easy & affordable! For just $29/month it's the best payroll deal for any small business. To support the show, please visit this link to check them out: millionaire-interviews.com/square. StartEngine is the largest equity crowdfunding site in the USA. Over 170+ companies have raised $60 million using the platform. And 87% of companies successfully reached their minimum funding goal of $10k. Get 20% off your campaign using this link: millionaire-interviews.com/start. Blinkist gives you key ideas from the world’s best nonfiction books in 15-minute text and audio. Learn something new everyday with unlimited access to over 2,500 of the world’s best titles in 19 top categories. Get 7% off & your first week free with this link: millionaire-interviews.com/blinkist. *** For Show Notes, Key Points, Contact Info, Resources Mentioned, & the Fabulous 4 Questions on this episode visit our website: Millionaire Interviews. ***

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0:00.0

to be very frank, I wasn't a great developer.

0:02.5

I think a lot of people struggle with realizing what they're good at and what they're great at.

0:07.3

So I was good, but I wasn't great. I was never going to be a phenomenal developer.

0:10.6

But number two, I just really didn't like working at a big company. I had very low impact.

0:15.1

If I disappear the next day, nobody would know.

0:20.8

What business you end up building is never going to be your initial idea.

0:24.3

No one who takes a shower and a light bulb goes off and comes up with this great idea,

0:29.0

and then go build exactly that and millions of people come in and use it.

0:32.6

That's not how startups work. What works is...

0:39.0

You don't really know what you have, you're not making any money.

0:41.2

Your friends are looking at you like, what are you doing?

0:45.1

Now, I know this is a long story, but this is kind of really interesting.

0:48.8

So for the first six months to a year, we actually didn't have much traction at all.

0:52.8

So I would remember three.

0:58.6

My name is Christine. I am based in Toronto.

1:01.8

I currently run a company called Snap Travel.

1:04.5

And Snap Travel allows you to book a hotel room over Facebook Messenger and SMS.

1:10.6

So it's a conversational commerce experience.

1:13.3

There's been a lot of hype around bots recently.

1:15.6

Falls somewhat into that category.

1:17.6

So when you start chatting with Snap Travel, you can be chatting with a bot.

1:21.0

You can be chatting with a live human agent.

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