Adioso - AngelList

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Product

Adioso a search & booking app (for web & mobile) that is dedicated to lesure travel.

It allows users to:

1) search without constraints on destinations & dates,
2) “follow” destinations or search terms to receive deals, and
3) book when satisfied the best options have been found.

The key benefits are:

- Travellers feel much more confident about making travel decisions.

- For airlines & suppliers it's a much higher-converting, higher-margin distribution channel.

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Tom Howard

Co-founder, Adioso. Product-designer, recruiter, hacker, writer, traveller.
Fenn Bailey

Co-founder & architect of Adioso. Hacker. Traveler.
Noah Jacobson

Engineer at Adioso - Backpacker: 2 years of travel and counting - Presenter at Agile2009 conference - First technical employee at TrapWire, Inc.
Daniel Hackner

Engineer at Adioso; CS graduate with honors in research; Worked at Google and TripIt

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Paul Buchheit

Partner at YCombinator, Founder of FriendFeed, Creator of GMail
Alexis Ohanian

Co-Founder of Reddit, launched Hipmunk as marketing guy (now advisor), Chief Swine Defender at Breadpig,
Wayne Crosby

Investor in Etacts, WePay, Appjet, E La Carte, Fivestar, Clickpass, Foodoro, Snaptalent, Blue Frog Gaming, Anywhere.fm, Bountii, Fathomdb, Co2stats...
Robby Walker

Cofounder of Greplin. Before that: cofounded Zenter, sold to Google, invested in 22 companies.
Tim Cederman-Haysom

Angel investor with focus on consumer internet. Product manager at SurveyMonkey. PhD in HCI.
Stephen Bartlett-Bragg

Airline executive British Airways and Qantas Airways. Co-founder CEO of EB2 airline e-commerce software sold to Sabre Inc. Executive Director of Headshift.

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Y Combinator

Y Combinator runs two three-month funding cycles a year. Each cycle culminates in Demo Day, at which the startups present to the world's top startup investors.

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Tony Wright

Current: tomoguides.com (mobile apps for on-the-ground travelers). Previous: Cubeduel (went viral, sold 2011) & RescueTime (YC, True Ventures, profitable).
David Rusenko

Founder, Weebly
Scott Duffy

Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Author & Speaker

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Elliot Shepherd

High-functioning geek with delusions of architecture. Helped build Wego. Worked at Telstra, Tramada, and Veda Advantage. Loves deadlines and sushi.
Laura Zinssmeister

Designer, nerd and travel junkie. Worked at Southwest Airlines and has done work for a number of large hotel brands including Hilton, Marriott and Starwood.
David Zderic
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Niket Desai

Co-Founder Punchd (acq. GOOG '11). 500Startups LP. Google. Cal Engineering. Love Chipotle. Product/Stats/UX. Known to be naughty.

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Alexis Ohanian

Co-Founder of Reddit, launched Hipmunk as marketing guy (now advisor), Chief Swine Defender at Breadpig,

“Our baseline traffic has increased 25% in the past week, and our registered user signup rate is nearly 50% up for the month.”

9 hours ago

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Tim Cederman-Haysom Adioso was an easy investment choice for me for a couple of reasons. To start with -- great founders, with depth of experience as well as passion for the product. Then there's the product itself. Looks great, tackles a hard problem elegantly, and solving a real need.

4 months ago

Niket Desai I am impressed by the team in a number of ways, perhaps most by their desire to create a Travel company that emulates the culture we find among the best tech companies.

The team is strong from a capability standpoint, but they are because of the way they support and compliment one another. To build a extraordinary company/culture/impact they have very much realized to start with an extraordinary... more

1 month ago · Tom Howard and 1 other person like this

Alexis Ohanian It takes a lot to write up something like this. Startup news is all too often full of success stories and not enough of the struggles. I'm still a believer in this team - they simply will not quit and it appears they're hitting their stride with the product.

If you didn't see Tom's recap on Hacker News, take some time to read this: http://tomhoward.co/part-1-...

17 hours ago · Naval Ravikant and 1 other person like this