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Oskar Bruening Put Precision in the Business of Getting Lost
The Peek co-founder trained computers to spot secrets, studied fine art, and then spent more than a decade making zip lines, museum visits and kayak rentals easier to book. His career is a study in what happens when an engineer learns that the hardest system is a human one.
Atcore: The Software Behind £20 Billion in Holiday Bookings
The travel software company helps turn flights, hotel rooms and a thicket of prices into holidays people can actually book. Its story runs from a £45 million buyout to the daily work of making complicated trips look simple.
TrovaTrip Put Creators in the Tour-Bus Driver's Seat - Then Removed the Gate That Kept Smaller Communities Out
TrovaTrip found a clever way to turn online trust into offline travel: creators bring the crowd, local operators run the trip, and the platform takes care of the unglamorous middle. Its most revealing product decision was learning when not to demand more data.
Ted Clements
Ted Clements is the CEO of WeTravel, a San Francisco-based payments and booking platform for multi-day and group travel operators. He took the top job in January 2023 after co-founder Johannes Koeppel stepped aside to become Chief Product Officer and personally recruited him. Clements built his career at FareHarbor, joining as one of the first mainland US sales reps and rising to COO and acting CEO, helping scale the day-tour software company to 700-plus employees and an acquisition by Booking Holdings. In September 2025 he led WeTravel through a $92 million Series C round from Sapphire Ventures, pushing the company toward its goal of becoming the operating system for the fragmented multi-day travel market.