Using AI to take your STR operation to the next level
The Boostly Podcast
Mark Simpson
5.0 • 302 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Luca, if you can do me a massive favor, just tell everybody, tell all of you, |
| 0:04.2 | as all the listeners, all the watches, a little bit about journey, a little bit about you, |
| 0:08.8 | and how you got this job. Yeah, thanks for having me. Yes. I'm a co-founder and CEO of |
| 0:16.8 | Journey. I was born and raised in Italy to just give you a bit of a bit background about myself, |
| 0:22.0 | to US specifically LA. This is about 2008. A couple of years after I moved there, |
| 0:29.3 | this was like earlier B&B, and there was not much done online in terms of short-term rentals, |
| 0:36.9 | and one of the things I realized is that short-term rentals, especially for luxury villas, |
| 0:41.4 | was done all through brokers. And if you search for luxury villas online, you couldn't find really |
| 0:46.9 | anything. So I learned that's how I got involved in the industries by seeing this problem, |
| 0:53.9 | launching a landing page, and literally this is one of the first companies doing Google Ads |
| 1:00.0 | for luxury villas in LA. That landing page did over $1.2 million in revenue, |
| 1:06.6 | next to us on the first year. And yeah, that was the very, very beginning of the industry. |
| 1:14.5 | Obviously, short-lived, within a thousand or twelve months, we had something like maybe |
| 1:21.0 | shifting competitors, including like one fine-stay, luxury, three bunch of other companies. |
| 1:26.3 | But that really hooked me into the industry. And from there, obviously, since the |
| 1:31.6 | that became a free crowd of three, quickly, I still also managed my company with the idea of |
| 1:37.7 | utilizing technology to make that business as capable as possible. A company that time was |
| 1:42.5 | called Gas Wizer, grew that company to 300 units across 60 universities in US. And in the |
| 1:51.0 | process of doing that, I built a massive amount of frustration in trying to make different technologies |
| 1:58.0 | working together. I've been a customer of many DMS companies, and I've been trying to make |
| 2:06.1 | them work, you know, things like the actual digital system, alongside with the gas |
| 2:10.4 | eradication system pricing, different type of IoTs, and different type of OTAs all work as a |
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