Henry Chen Weinstein has been involved with product development for almost a decade, has served as a board member of several start-ups, and co-founded the award winning Cockpit, an airline venture hub that applies innovation in aviation with partnering with and investing in early stage start-ups. Henry was selected as one of Forbes 30 under 30, Globes (Israeli Financial Times) 40 under 40, and one of Israel's 100 most influential people in the digital space.
Henry spoke with Mickey Haslavsky, CEO of wndr, to discuss the value of complete transparency with your investors, how to make money in complex industries, and how to build communities in the travel tech world.
By the way, we're using wndr’s old name, TrueSpots, in this episode. But really, wndr goes much better with our new hair style.
Time stamps:
00:00: Introduction
02:02: Why did you step into the travel industry
04:57: Distance between venture capital and travel start-ups
07:45: Accessibility of air travel
09:05: The travel technician community
12:03: The issue of unavailable and fragmented data
15:28: Creating a database of players in the travel industry
21:56: Future of travel technician
23:30: What’s your motivation and expectation