Full Video: Hopper CEO Frederic Lalonde at Skift Global Forum 2021
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We've been skeptics of Hopper since Skift's launch. They've been proving us wrong lately, and that's OK.
Hopper CEO and co-founder Frederic Lalonde spoke with Skift Executive Editor Dennis Schaal at Skift Global Forum 2021. The two discussed the theme “The Future of SuperApps and Mobile.”
You can watch a full video of their discussion as well as read a transcript of it, below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJoE4ByrqHIDennis Schaal: Fred, thank you for being here. Really appreciate it. Please put some questions for Fred in the app. I'll be your best friend if you do that. So Hopper is really leading the charge and doing some things that haven't been tried before in online travel, so I want to hear all about that. And then you have some contrarian views about a few things that I would definitely like to hear about as well. So for people who don't know, could you explain what Hopper is and how you make money?
Frederick Lalonde: Yeah, so we started a long time ago.
Schaal: 2007.
Lalonde: Yes, and we took a long time to la
