Assaf Karmon is the Co-founder and CEO of TurnoverBnB, an online platform that helps Airbnb vacation rental hosts with turnovers by providing them with the automation to find cleaners and schedule cleaning. It also allows cleaners to find rental owners in their area so they can grow their business. TurnoverBnB’s platform and mobile app automate the whole process.

Assaf has a strong background in software engineering. Before starting TurnoverBnB, Assaf was the Vice President of Engineering at GoShare and Senior Software Engineer at Nokia.

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While running an Airbnb business, Assaf Karmon faced a big challenge managing the property's guest turnover and scheduling cleaning services. He was also frustrated that the business was so time-consuming since he started it with the intention of building a passive income source.

To solve the problem, Assaf decided to use his engineering background to create an app that made complex work easier. The app became popular in his community. After getting a steady flow of feedback and many requests for adjustments, he saw an opportunity to create a business.

In this episode of the Skunkworks Podcast, Eric Bourget interviews Assaf Karmon, the Co-founder and CEO of TurnoverBnB, about how he developed a cleaning app to solve his own problem and ended up building it into a business. Assaf explains the pandemic’s impact on his business, talks about his customer personas, and shares how he allocates resources between his products.