We swung past the office of Stan Fourteau, the Co-Founder and CEO of Ukio, a fast-growing, Barcelona-based start-up that's shaking up the residential real estate market in Europe. Prior to building Ukio, he spent seven years at Airbnb in several roles including the GM of Latin America (Homes) and the Global Head of Growth (Experiences).

Listen in as we delve into the story behind the unstructured post-MBA path Stan took that led him to Airbnb in its early days, his tips for adapting to pressure and change in a fast-paced, ever evolving start-up environment (hint: ice baths help), his experience raising a successful $9M seed round for Ukio and a ton more.

In this weeks’ episode of IESE Spotlights, my podcasting wife Ally O'Donohoe and I were delighted to welcome IESE 2019 alum, George Parker, onto the show.

An entrepreneur straight off the bat after graduating, George is a co-founder and current CEO of GOMEEP, a Barcelona based company helping companies and individuals by providing built for purpose reliable e-mobility assets for last mile delivery and transportation. 

We explored his post MBA experiences as a founder here in Barcelona and everything that entails; the highs, the lows, and how the MBA helped him on his way.

We're back for Season 2 of IESE's very own student-run podcast, now lovingly renamed 'IESE Spotlights'.
 
In this series, we'll be quizzing a diverse spectrum of IESE-affiliated guests - whether successful entrepreneurs, academics or students - on the highs and lows of their personal and professional journeys and what they've learnt along the way.
 
To kick things off this season, we couldn’t be happier to have IESE alum Avi Meir joining us. As the CEO and Co-Founder of unicorn-status TravelPerk, one of the fastest-growing travel start-ups in the world, Avi has a wealth of wisdom to impart on taking a company from 0 to 1, maintaining resilience (not easy when you're leading a corporate travel start-up through Covid-19!), using the MBA to your advantage and everything in between. A huge thank you to Avi for taking time out of a crazy schedule to chat!