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Avi Meir: Business travel in 2021 will surpass 2019 levels
“I'm willing to bet That business travel will grow in twenty-twenty-one. Not based on twenty-twenty, based on twenty-nineteen.”
Meir in 2019: Tesla will become a $1 trillion company
“I believe that Tesla will be a trillion dollar company.”
Meir: TravelPerk will be the top global business travel platform by 2025
“We probably will be the number one business travel platform globally in the next five years.”
Avi Meir: Rail bookings will exceed domestic flights during travel recovery
“Rail will be bigger than flights, at least by the number of bookings, because it's just more convenient to travel domestically, in many cases, in train versus flight.”
Meir: First-round venture funding for travel startups is dead for a while
“First money into travel company, probably dead for a while.”
Meir: Investors who mistreat founders quickly lose reputation because founders talk
“We do talk, and something for investors to note, I think, is everybody knows it, but I think it's important to remind everybody that we talk between us, right? Don't screw entrepreneurs because everybody will know, right?”
Meir: Cutting workforce capacity too deeply will delay post-pandemic rebuilding
“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.”