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Slick Talk: The Hospitality Podcast - This Is A Journey with Luca Zambello, CEO of Jurny
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This Is A Journey with Luca Zambello, CEO of Jurny

Slick Talk: The Hospitality Podcast

07/28/21

40m

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Luca Zambello is the co-founder and CEO of Jurny, a hospitality tech company pioneering the next generation of tech-first, on-demand accommodations. A born entrepreneur, Luca launched one of the first professionally operated Airbnb vacation rental companies in 2012, quickly earning the Superhost status that he still holds today. Following that success, he realized there was a need for a more streamlined, on-demand hospitality experience for both guests and operators. Partnering with David Phillips in 2017, he co-founded Jurny and has led the company to triple-digit growth with more than 570 units under management across ten markets.
The company is a leader in hospitality technology and automation allowing it to manage and operate some of the top-performing hotels and multi-family buildings in the industry. As an expert within the hospitality industry, Luca has been featured in Bloomberg, Forbes, Entrepreneur and other major industry publications. His mission continues to be modernizing hospitality and creating solutions that cater to the heightened expectations of today's traveler.
Smart locks, Smart thermostats, automation, and a solution for any hotel and vacation rental company.

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In this episode, we explore:

02:58 - Luca’s Background

04:12 - Things need to consider when managing Airbnbs

05:35 - What makes Jurny different from others

09:47 - Offering full management service

10:51 - Making Guest feel at home

17:56 - Eliminating human interaction

21:18 - Why some guest don’t need human interaction

25:47 - Roadmap for Jurny

29:37 - Key things when leading a team

Connecting with the Guest:

Website: www.jurny.com,

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/urjurny,

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Jurny-115358886519014,

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/jurny

Slick Talk Website & Socials: https://bit.ly/3uCsm6H

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Making your guest feel at home 10:51 - 12:25

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Mickey Kropf is the Co-Founder and CEO of Vector Travel, Inc, a tech-enabled, full-service, rental housing hospitality company. Prior to Vector Travel, Mickey co-founded and led growth at Rented.com, a short-term rental marketplace connecting owners with short-term rental management companies. Mickey has a background in commercial real estate development and finance.

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We also want to say thank you to Breezeway for sponsoring this episode! To learn more about Breezeway, go to www.breezeway.io/slick

In this episode, we explore:

02:58 - Mickeys Background

05:55 - Revenue share model vs master lease model

09:27 - Why mess with the model that’s not broken

11:47 - Iceberg Analogy

14:57 - Dealing with multi-billion dollar corporation clients

16:42 - Control Access to the Building

20:43 - Tracking the Inventory for multifamily side

23:10 - Positive Challenges that help grow the business

26:51 - The best clients are the existing clients

28:55 - Handling the business operations

31:36 - Contracts with the clients

Connecting with the Guest:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/vectortravel

www.vectorstays.com

Slick Talk Website & Socials: https://bit.ly/3uCsm6H

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I loved having Daniel Cruz, CEO & Founder of washbnb, on the show so much, and with all of their exciting news as a company, I just had to have him on for a "late-night recording session" to hear it all!

Tune in to hear how washbnb is doing from the recent crowdfunding campaign to being accepted and in week two of Techstars!

If you haven't heard Daniel's first episode on Slick Talk, you NEED to go listen to it now because it was that good!

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https://www.slicktalkthepodcast.com/podcast/episode/3b77f51d/created-by-hosts-for-hosts

Listen until the end to hear a little announcement from Daniel & me as well!

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