From Side Hustle to Multi-million Dollar Exit with Ryan Wenger
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In this episode, Don interviews Ryan Wenger! He is the CEO of WhereTo, a cost-saving business travel platform that uses Artificial Intelligence to help employees book business trips in minutes. WhereTo has about 30 employees, but was recently acquired by a 20,000 employee company, Flight Centre.
Ryan talks about how WhereTo transitioned from being a small 30 person startup to operating within a 20,000 employee global agency, and some of the changes that came with having more resources available as a result.
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