8 Travel Recovery Zingers From Y Combinator's Adam Goldstein: The Long View This Week
Skift Take
Regardless of the shape of the travel recovery, it's clear that travel startups will be behind the curve. Many investors were already wary of funding new travel companies, but now they'll have to worry whether the next pandemic will shut them down anew.
What's next for the travel industry when a post-coronavirus economic recovery occurs, and what will be the next entrepreneurial move for Adam Goldstein, the co-founder of Hipmunk and currently a visiting partner at Y Combinator?
Goldstein was Skift founder Rafat Ali's guest Friday in his weekly podcast, The Long View [embedded below], and they discussed travel startups, the prospects of a recovery, Google, and online travel trends, among other topics.
Ali asked Goldstein whether his next business would be in travel should he start one.
A Travel Startup? Nope
"I hope not," Goldstein said, referring to the prospect of launching another travel startup. He added that he learned from his Hipmunk experience that relying on airlines to pay for services "is just about the worst business you can have."
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