Skift Forum Europe: Trivago’s Bosses Try Unconventional Tactics to Manage Growth
Photo Credit: Johannes Thomas is a managing director at Trivago, the Düsseldorf-based company that calls itself the world's largest hotel metasearch engine and that is part-owned by Expedia. Trivago
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How do you stay efficient and maintain core values when your company scales from 700 to 1,100 employees within a year? You get rid of most job titles and fly everyone to Ibiza for the weekend, says Trivago's managing director Johannes Thomas.
On April 4 in London, hundreds of the travel industry’s brightest and best will gather in London for the first Skift Forum Europe 2017. In only a few short years Skift's Forums — the largest creative business gatherings in the global travel industry — have become what media, speakers, and attendees have called the “TED Talks of travel.”
This year’s event at Tobacco Dock in London will feature speakers including CEOs and top executives from InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), Norwegian Air, Google, Lonely Planet, Momondo Group, and many more.
The following is part of a series of posts highlighting some of the speakers and touching on issues of concern in Europe and beyond.
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Managing director of Trivago Johannes Thomas has thought a lot about startup culture and managing growth. When we last interviewed Thomas in September 2015, Trivago had 700 employees.
Since then, the company has gone on a hiring spree. Its headcount is now above 1,
