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Competing with Booking and Expedia

Former Country Manager at Airbnb and Director at eBay, APAC

IP Interview
Published on May 30, 2020

Why is this interview interesting?

  • How Airbnb can differentiate itself from larger OTA’s and offer something different to traditional hotels
Executive Bio

Sam McDonagh

Former Country Manager at Airbnb and Director at eBay, APAC

Sam has over 20 years experience running online marketplaces. He is the former Country Manager of Australia and New Zealand at Airbnb where he scaled the platform to over 250,000 listings from 2014-19. Sam was previously the General Manager of Australia for Dollar Shave Club and spent 5 years running eBay Southeast Asia from 2000-05.

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