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Schrömgens: Trivago replaces single-manager hierarchy with three specialized leadership roles
“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.”
Schrömgens: Trivago mandates leader mobility across departments to stop empire building
“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…”
Schrömgens: Trivago eliminated corporate job titles to remove artificial power dynamics
“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”
Schrömgens: Modern businesses cannot productively make five-year plans
“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.”
Lieberman: Insight Partners sold Trivago to Expedia for $1 billion
“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.”
Schrömgens: All of Trivago's direct peers were listed in the US
“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.”