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Tim Roy Built a Business Around the Five Hours Between Guests
The civil engineer turned one awkward cleaning handoff into Turno, a global marketplace built for the frantic interval after checkout and before the next key turns in the door.
Assaf Karmon Turned a Tuesday Cleaning Problem Into a Global Marketplace
A late reply, a double-booked cleaner and one changed checkout date gave a software engineer his opening. The useful company came only after the first idea failed.
Amiad Soto Started With Cleaning Supplies. Now He Is Automating the Messy Middle of Travel
Guesty began with two opinionated twins, a beach interrupted by guest messages, and a pair of founders holding cleaning supplies. Thirteen years later, Amiad Soto is still chasing the same idea: make the invisible work of hospitality disappear.
Kim Lalande
Kim Lalande is the founder and CEO of KEY.co, an Austin-based hospitality marketplace that pairs vetted luxury vacation homes with in-home concierge services such as private chefs, grocery stocking, and in-home massage. Drawing on years of business-heavy travel and hotel stays, she built KEY to close the gap between the space of a private home and the service of a five-star hotel. Since founding the company in 2014, she has grown it to thousands of curated homes across dozens of destinations in the U.S., Mexico, Canada, and the Caribbean, raising roughly $16-18M in venture funding along the way.
Amr Aloufi
Amr Aloufi is a Co-Founder at Beyond (formerly Beyond Pricing), a San Francisco-based SaaS platform that uses AI and dynamic pricing algorithms to maximize revenue for short-term rental property managers and vacation rental hosts worldwide. With roots in Saudi Arabia and a background in business administration and human resources, Aloufi brought operational and business development acumen to a company that has grown to serve 715,000+ listings across 44,000+ cities, raised $46M in funding, and priced over $15 billion in bookings.
Julie Brinkman
Julie Brinkman is CEO of Beyond, the leading revenue management platform for short-term rental operators. She joined as COO on March 2, 2020 - just 10 days before global COVID travel bans - and navigated the company through the pandemic to emerge stronger, earning her promotion to CEO in February 2021. A University of Michigan Ross School of Business alumna, Brinkman spent a decade at Deloitte before sharpening her growth instincts at Groupon and Hireology. She now leads a global team of ~310 across 30 countries, focused on replacing gut-feel pricing with data-driven revenue optimization for property managers worldwide.
Kevin Yuann
Kevin Yuann is the CEO of Peerspace, the leading marketplace for hourly venue rentals with over 45,000 unique spaces across seven countries. A veteran operator who spent a decade at NerdWallet - including as Chief Business Officer through a 15x revenue growth period and the company's 2021 IPO - Yuann brings a rare combination of consumer finance expertise and marketplace instincts to Peerspace. He holds a BA in Business Economics and Visual Arts from Brown University and an MBA from UCLA Anderson, and he took the helm at Peerspace in May 2024 as the platform crossed $500 million in total sales and one million bookings.