Johannes Reck is the Founder and CEO of GetYourGuide, the $2BN company that started with a holiday to China and nothing to do. For the first two years, GetYourGuide received only 5 bookings. Today the platform is worth $2BN. They have raised from some of the best, including an amazing story with Masa Son and Softbank. ---------------------------------------------- In Today’s Episode We Discuss: 00:00 – Intro 00:33 – Start Episode 02:16 – “We Had 5 Bookings in 2 Years. 3 Were My Mum.” 07:34 – “I Asked My Parents to Remortgage Their House for a Pivot” 08:08 – The Vatican Tour That Changed Everything 13:28 – Why VCs Rejected GetYourGuide 100+ Times 16:06 – “I Regret Our Series A — Too Much Dilution” - The $14M Series A That Nearly Killed the Company 23:04 – Recruiting Netflix’s Head of Growth Nearly Killed Me 24:37 – “I Hired All the Wrong People – Then Laid Off 30%” 34:45 – The $450M SoftBank Deal... Then COVID Hit 36:30 – “We Went to $0 in Revenue in 3 Weeks” 40:12 – The Sequoia Tree...