TCTV: In the Studio, Sam Shank on Hotel Tonight?s Extreme Focus on Mobile Travel

"In the Studio" welcomes today a successful, repeat founder in the travel space who has started and sold a company already, hails from a family of entrepreneurs, and who caught the travel bug early in life and decided to to mix his pleasure with business for his career. After working for a bunch of consumer internet companies back in the late 90s, Hotel Tonight CEO Sam Shank felt it was finally time to start his own thing. An avid traveler, Shank's initial idea was to build a travel social network with a map to record the places you've been. He had this idea before Google Maps existed, and his team actually built their own map server and map data. After realizing it was a fun product but not a good business, Shank readjusted focus to hotel reviews an ultimately sold the business -- that company was TravelPost, which was acquired by Sidestep, which then in turn was acquired by Kayak.

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