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Juan Rodriguez

Founder, The Hotels Network · 1 appearance on the record.

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Juan Rodriguez is the founder of The Hotels Network, an AI-powered platform helping hotels increase direct website bookings. Following its 2025 acquisition by Lighthouse, he became Chief AI Officer, having previously founded digital marketing agency Duplex and home-exchange network Knok.

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6 assertions · 1 opinion · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 5 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

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What the tape says about how Juan argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
The Hotels Network charges $300 per month per property for full package
“So we, our current price is 300, US dollars per month per property for the full package.”
Juan Rodriguez Mar 2, 2019 ▶ 2:37 1316 3000 Hotels Pay Him $4.3m in ARR to Help With Website Bookings

Everything Juan Rodriguez said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Rodriguez: Raising travel tech capital is easier in Europe than US
“I actually think that for the travel space in which we are, it might be easier to raise in Europe today than it is in the US. Because the hospitality market in Europe is very dynamic, very large, and there are many people who really know the market well, and t…”
Juan Rodriguez Mar 2, 2019 ▶ 11:06 1316 3000 Hotels Pay Him $4.3m in ARR to Help With Website Bookings
Disclosure
The Hotels Network raised its Series A at a 6x–8x ARR multiple
“We were, let's say we were working between six and eight.”
Juan Rodriguez Mar 2, 2019 ▶ 11:44 1316 3000 Hotels Pay Him $4.3m in ARR to Help With Website Bookings
Assertion Not checkable as stated
The Hotels Network clients pay an average of $150 to $200 monthly
“It depends a bit, but that would say that about, I mean, I'm 50 to 200, if you do it on average, it depends on, on the dollars dollars, US.”
Juan Rodriguez Mar 2, 2019 ▶ 2:57 1316 3000 Hotels Pay Him $4.3m in ARR to Help With Website Bookings
Assertion Not checkable as stated
The Hotels Network reaches over 3,000 paying hotel customers
“We have over 3000 hotels that we work with now.”
Juan Rodriguez Mar 2, 2019 ▶ 4:16 1316 3000 Hotels Pay Him $4.3m in ARR to Help With Website Bookings
Assertion Not checkable as stated
The Hotels Network grew revenue roughly 100% to 150% year-over-year
“We we've grown the last year. We've grown over a hundred percent. It's I think it's about, if you see a year a year, it's probably a hundred, a 50%.”
Juan Rodriguez Mar 2, 2019 ▶ 5:31 1316 3000 Hotels Pay Him $4.3m in ARR to Help With Website Bookings
Assertion Not checkable as stated
The Hotels Network acquires hotel properties for $600 to $800 each
“So if you do it per property, our cost of acquisition is probably around 600 dollars, six to 800 maybe.”
Juan Rodriguez Mar 2, 2019 ▶ 7:16 1316 3000 Hotels Pay Him $4.3m in ARR to Help With Website Bookings
Assertion Not checkable as stated
The Hotels Network achieves CAC payback within 6 to 9 months
“So we are seeing how much the average fee is compared to the number we have spent and it is between six and nine months.”
Juan Rodriguez Mar 2, 2019 ▶ 8:47 1316 3000 Hotels Pay Him $4.3m in ARR to Help With Website Bookings
Disclosure
The Hotels Network reached profitability after raising under $300K
“Less than three, 300 K from the founders ourselves, and then from a small round from NFX in in San Francisco. And then we became profitable on that.”
Juan Rodriguez Mar 2, 2019 ▶ 10:05 1316 3000 Hotels Pay Him $4.3m in ARR to Help With Website Bookings
Disclosure
The Hotels Network raised a $3.7M round while profitable
“And then we raised money in February, 3.7 million us to drive growth away when we were already profitable.”
Juan Rodriguez Mar 2, 2019 ▶ 10:19 1316 3000 Hotels Pay Him $4.3m in ARR to Help With Website Bookings
Assertion Supported
The Hotels Network charges $300 per month per property for full package
“So we, our current price is 300, US dollars per month per property for the full package.”
Juan Rodriguez Mar 2, 2019 ▶ 2:37 1316 3000 Hotels Pay Him $4.3m in ARR to Help With Website Bookings

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
1316 3000 Hotels Pay Him $4.3m in ARR to Help With Website Bookings Mar 2, 2019 7m
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