Nothing against Ryan Gosling… but @friedberg is Ryland Grace. He wouldn’t have needed to act.

There’s a lot of talk about jobs disappearing. The Travel Tech Essentialist job board has surpassed 2245 open roles worldwide, and it keeps growing. Sales, marketing, product, partnerships, design, data, engineering, operations…the whole stack. jobs.traveltechessentialist.…

If I had a dentist's office, I'd offer a head massage during treatment. Patients would actually look forward to them.

One of the quietest headwinds entrepreneurs fight every day.... At Google, Goldman or McKinsey, doors open and emails get answered. You think it's you, but often it's the logo. Entrepreneurs have no such luxury. Every door, every reply, every yes, earned from scratch. And if you're inside a big institution right now, reply to that founder's email or request. It costs you almost nothing. For them it might change everything. And you never know how quickly the roles flip.

According to LinkedIn, Davos became the world’s most populated city last week. Either my spam filter worked wonders or I simply wasn’t on the distribution list.

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Here’s the only college ranking that really matters. It combines the latest AP Top 25 College Football poll (for football cred and school spirit) the Forbes “America’s Top Colleges” ranking (for academic cred). Introducing the Academic-Athletic Power Ranking. Here are the true Top 10 Colleges in the USA: 1️⃣ Vanderbilt University 🎩💛🖤 2️⃣ Georgia Institute of Technology 3️⃣ University of Michigan 4️⃣ University of Notre Dame 5️⃣ University of Virginia 6️⃣ Brigham Young University 7️⃣ University of Southern California 8️⃣ The University of Georgia 9️⃣ Texas A&M University 🔟 The University of Texas at Austin Brains, spirit, and school pride. Vandy tops them all. ⚓️

Travel Tech is hiring → 1,316 open roles across the industry’s top players and fastest-growing startups. A few standouts this week: - @travelperk | Engineering Manager - Spend | $215,000 - $250,000 | Boston - @Airbnb | Senior Market Manager, Airbnb for Business | $139,000 - $163,000 | USA; Remote eligible - Fora Travel | Senior Data Analyst, Marketing & Growth | $120,000 - $160,000 | New York City - @acaitravel | Founding Head of Product | €70,000 - €100,000 | Barcelona - Protect Group | Business Development Director - France | €60,000 - €80,000 | France - @weroad_official | Business Development Manager - DACH | €50,000 - €60,000 | Berlin - @valpashotels | Head of Partnerships | Paris; Helsinki - @bizaway | Senior Product Manager - Spain / Italy | Remote - @bookingcom | Product Manager, FinTech - Financial Systems | Amsterdam - @airalocom | Senior Data Engineer | Europe - @Despegar | Project Management Specialist | Buenos Aires, Argentina And hundreds more in product, data, design, legal, ops, engineering. Roles span 40 countries and remote, with strong coverage in Barcelona (228 jobs), New York (25), London (44), Mexico City (59 jobs), Amsterdam (55), Buenos Aires (51), etc… If you’re looking for your next move, the full list is here: Travel Tech Jobs 37: traveltechjobs.substack.com/…

Quick ask: Who are the individuals you follow/trust on LinkedIn or X for travel tech insights?  Not media brands, just people. Founders, execs, operators, analysts, researchers. Folks who consistently share useful ideas or help you think more clearly about where travel is headed. I’ll publish a shortlist in the Travel Tech Essentialist newsletter so others can follow and learn from them too. Please answer directly (and anonymously) on this Google Form: forms.gle/8SKfyXC1rYxwxPdh8 Would love to know who’s on your radar. Feel free to like or share if you think others in your network might have good picks too. Thanks in advance.

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“Overtourism” makes tourism the villain. The real issue is distribution. Demand keeps pooling in the same places at the same time. The hard part is spreading the flow...restrictions are just the easy answer. More in the latest Travel Tech Essentialist: traveltechessentialist.subst…

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Que buen podcast, como no podía ser de otra con semejantes cracks . Muy fan de Luis Martín Cabiedes y de @meizosolegalpin

1,372 jobs live now. Among them: - VP Partnerships @travelperk (Barcelona) - Director Comms @Expedia ($197K-$275K, Seattle) - Staff Engineer @Airbnb ($204K-$255K equity, Remote) - Social Media Marketing Lead @hellofora ($80K-$100K equity, New York City) Find your next move: jobs.traveltechessentialist.…

¡Más de 1000 vacantes en las principales empresas de viajes. Producto, marketing, ventas, data science, ingeniería... - Europa: 392 vacantes - Barcelona: 143 - Buenos Aires: 56 - México: 40 etc... traveltechjobs.substack.com/…

New deep dive. This one’s on how @getStay22 is building the bridge between travel content and monetization, and becoming core infrastructure for the travel creator economy. They’re driving 3x to 10x revenue lifts for travel players, blogs, weather sites, and now YouTube, with tools that are smart, subtle, and built for conversion. Big thanks to @Andrewlockhead and Rami Nuseir for giving me an insider look at how it all works and letting me share the story. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did researching and writing it. 👇 Full piece open.substack.com/pub/travel…

New Travel Tech Essentialist deep dive: Vio.com and the rethink of travel metasearch. Vio.com has quietly built a GMV €1B travel business without raising a cent of venture funding and by rethinking how metasearch should work for travelers. I’ve been following Oz Har Adir and the team for years. Their approach is simple, effective, and contrarian. In a space full of big budgets and aggressive tactics, they’ve taken a different path: focused, deliberate, and profitable. This is the third sponsored deep dive on Travel Tech Essentialist. Free to read, built for builders. Hope you enjoy it! open.substack.com/pub/travel…