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“And so far, we made very clear not to have multiple locations. We only had Barcelona. We never did remote, and we lost great people because we didn't do remote, and some, like, great engineers want to travel to Japan and work from there, so we paid some price,…”

“Travelpeak is the last company I'm going to work for.”

“I never went into, like, a fundraise mode and pitched, like, 30 funds in a period of a month. I never had to do it.”

“So if you want to keep growing, you as a person, you want to keep growing at the speed of the company, you need to get a new job in the company every six to 12 months. And this is just very challenging for most people, first, to accept, and second, to execute,…”

“We took the entire board, To Tel Aviv, and we made sure to have a full day before the board meeting, just touring Jerusalem, just, you know, like a touristic activity, no discussions planned.”

“It's not a family, right? And if you have to use a cliche, the family one, I like sports team one, right? So in a sports team, you have to sometimes give hard news, difficult news and deal with it instead of trying to be liked and protective. And I think the b…”

“We probably will be the number one business travel platform globally in the next five years.”

“We're definitely, any deal of this, we're definitely looking more and more into that direction, yeah.”

“But we actually grew very, very well multiples year and year in Q-one, right, in revenue. So Q-one was an amazing quarter for us in growth, even though we had, of course, not so great March.”

“As the crisis started, they sent me an email and they said, We have X million waiting for you. Tell us when to wire them. They didn't ask about terms. They didn't ask about if I actually need the money.”

“We actually never did remote work as a company. We always believed in being in the same office, having this kind of serendipity that you get by bumping into people and having an interesting discussion, waiting for the coffee or something. So we never did remot…”

“We're talking about demand going probably, and I'm being generous here. Probably below five percent globally for travel right now. Some areas just zero, right?”

“We stopped using the office a week or two before it was mandatory here in Spain.”

“As I said, it's going to end, and people will go back to traveling, and I don't want to lose 12 months after lockdowns are lifted in rebuilding the capacity, rebuilding the muscle that we have lost if we went and did too deep of a cut.”