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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.”
Rolf Schrömgens Jun 2, 2017 ▶ 20:27 20VC: Trivago Founder on Why Incumbents Have Lost Their Main Business Model, Why You Have To Destroy Everything Ego Related & Why Transparency Is The Key To Capital Flow
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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…”
Rolf Schrömgens Jun 2, 2017 ▶ 21:19 20VC: Trivago Founder on Why Incumbents Have Lost Their Main Business Model, Why You Have To Destroy Everything Ego Related & Why Transparency Is The Key To Capital Flow
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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.”
Rolf Schrömgens Jun 2, 2017 ▶ 14:04 20VC: Trivago Founder on Why Incumbents Have Lost Their Main Business Model, Why You Have To Destroy Everything Ego Related & Why Transparency Is The Key To Capital Flow
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Schrömgens: Trivago was entirely engineered by its two co-founders initially
“So Trivago was basically the first two, three years was a hundred percent like engineered by Peter and me. So by the two founders.”
Rolf Schrömgens Jun 2, 2017 ▶ 4:05 20VC: Trivago Founder on Why Incumbents Have Lost Their Main Business Model, Why You Have To Destroy Everything Ego Related & Why Transparency Is The Key To Capital Flow
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