Travel Trends Featuring Mauricio Prieto, Founder of eDreams and the Travel Tech Essentialist Newsletter

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From Mexico City, to Princeton college in the US, and an MBA from UC Berkeley to becoming the founder of a $5.5 billion gross booking business, eDreams, meet the impressive Mauricio Prieto. Our conversation starts from his shift from consulting to the travel industry and the birth of eDreams in Barcelona. We discuss how Mauricio and his team navigated the dot com downturn while maintaining consumer trust and how eDreams became a massively successful enterprise.
Our discussion doesn't stop at eDreams though, we journey forward to the creation of the Travel Tech Essentialist newsletter that we all love. Hear how Mauricio's profound experiences in the industry inspired this venture, creating a new platform providing valuable insights to the travel tech entrepreneurial community.
We discuss Mauricio's unique approach to content creation and community as he has built out an investor platform and career opportunity platform. We also manage to get in 4 Travel Trivia questions. This episode is an inspiring and informative journey through the travel tech industry with Mauricio Prieto. We are sure you will enjoy and start subscribing to his weekly newsletter if you haven't already.
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Chapters

1. Travel Trends Featuring Mauricio Prieto, Founder of eDreams and the Travel Tech Essentialist Newsletter (00:00:00)

2. Introducing Mauricio Prieto (00:00:13)

3. His Journey from eDreams to Travel Tech Essentialists (00:14:40)

4. Travel Trend Insights (00:26:00)

5. Travel Trivia & Farewell (00:41:20)