Recode Decode: Rolf Schrömgens, co-founder, Trivago

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Trivago co-founder and Managing Director Rolf Schrömgens talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about starting a search engine for hotels and why he thinks much larger rivals like Google are at a disadvantage. Schrömgens says he expects the distinctions among hotels, Airbnb listings and other forms of temporary housing to collapse over time, and wants Trivago to be able to recommend the one ideal place for a user to stay, regardless of category. He also discusses why Germany has not developed a Silicon Valley-like tech scene and why anti-immigrant fervor in the U.S., U.K. and parts of Europe is only hurting those countries and leaving them open to startup-style disruption. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Recode Radio presents Recode Decode, hosted by Cara Swisher, powered by digital media.
0:07.0	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, executive editor of Recode.
0:10.6	You may know me as the person who stays in Trump Hotel so I can trash the room, but in
0:14.6	my spare time I talk tech and you're listening to Recode Decode, a podcast about tech and
0:18.6	media's key players, big ideas and how they're changing the world we live in.
0:22.5	You can subscribe to Recode Decode at iTunes.com slash Recode Decode, and while you're there,
0:27.9	leave us a review.
0:29.4	Today in the red chair is Ralph Schrumgenz, the CEO of Travago, which he co-founded in 2006.
0:36.1	Travago is based in Dusseldorf, Germany and was the first hotel search engine in the
0:40.2	country.
0:41.2	Today it operates in dozens of countries and went public on the NASDAQ late last year.
0:45.6	Ralph, welcome to the show.
0:47.2	Thanks a lot.
0:48.2	Anyway, I'm glad to have you because we don't even have European entrepreneurs in.
0:51.7	I don't know why.
0:52.7	We ignore them completely and it's our fault.
0:54.3	No, maybe they are so not so many.
0:56.0	There's not so many.
0:57.0	That's I was not trying to insult you.
0:58.1	It is harder to find them across the globe.
1:00.1	There's a lot of American entrepreneurs and a lot of people from China and Israel.
1:05.6	We're going to talk about that issue in a little bit.
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