Bimble’s Francesca Howland and Julia Mallaby: “We launched a travel startup in Covid”

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Francesca Howland and Julia Mallaby, co-founders of Bimble, to talk about what they did before launching their travel startup (3:50), when they decided to team up (8:10), starting a company mid-career (10:20), raising money (15:05), launching the app (18:35), their worst day (19:40), setting up their tech team in Ukraine (22:20), building up a social network (28:35), coming up with the name (32:15), and influencer marketing (33:00).

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0:00.0	At the University of Southampton, they won't just teach you.
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0:06.5	Visit an Open Day to see why they're targeted by top employers
0:09.7	and to find out how their incredible research and mind-blowing facilities will shape your learning.
0:15.7	Hi, I'm Joshie, a math student here at Southampton.
0:18.7	Open Days really help me pitch your living here.
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0:21.0	students like me, meet our brilliant academics, explore the campuses and get a real feel for what
0:25.5	it's like studying here. Book your place. Search Southampton Open Days.
0:32.5	Yo, technology. What is it all about? We just come to the end of pandemic and somebody said,
0:40.2	what is the worst thing that could happen to you?
0:42.3	And we were giggling. We were like, dude, it already has.
0:46.8	Like, I don't know, maybe the worst thing that could happen is that all businesses would close
0:50.2	and nobody would be able to go out.
0:51.7	Oh, wait, we've just lived through that.
1:12.6	Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley and welcome back for another fabulous week.
1:16.2	I'm your host, Danny Forts and the West Coast correspondent for the Sunday Times.
1:19.2	And this week, we have a very good one for you.
1:20.5	So I have a question.
1:26.0	What would you do if you quit your job, say in your late 40s, early 50s,
1:30.5	raised a bunch of money to launch a travel startup.
1:32.6	And then COVID hit.
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