Trivago

“You cannot, the times in which you were able to plan five years ahead are definitely over, and in the moment where you try it, you are not productive anymore.”

“Looking at Trivago business model, there is a set of Peers. So, so set of company who you would say like in the same space as us, every single one of them is listed in the U S yeah. So there is none of them is really listed in Europe.”

“So Trivago was basically the first two, three years was a hundred percent like engineered by Peter and me. So by the two founders.”

“We identified three different types of leaders. So we don't have one leader anymore and one clear career in one direction. We have actually three leaders.”

“For responsibility leads now, we included a model that if you want to take more responsibility, you have to be also ruling in this situation to any time change your responsibility. So we have a model where, where you basically, we always say like you should be…”

“We don't have titles in the company because we think like title is just a very artificial manifestation of power, yeah, and you don't need that actually”

“A hundred days later, we wire and invest in a company called Trivago. Four years later, we sell it to Expedia for a billion dollars.”