How I Got Here, episode 25 - Wen-Wen Lam of NexTravel

Wen-Wen Lam, Co-founder and CEO

How I Got Here is a weekly podcast from PhocusWire and Mozio, getting the inside stories behind innovation and startups in travel and transportation.

Mozio's David Litwak and Kevin May from PhocusWire are joined by Wen-Wen Lam, co-founder and CEO of NexTravel, a business travel platform based in the U.S.

NexTravel is, in many respects, a classic travel startup in that it started out with one idea and then quickly pivoted to another.

The U.S.-based company launched in 2015 as a consumer-facing leisure trip platform but realized that it could switch fairly easily to a service that focused on the needs of business travelers.

At that point, a few years into its history, business travel was still a reasonably quiet sector on the startup front.

This relative head start allowed co-founder and CEO Wen-Wen Lam to build a brand (and its associated technology behind the scenes) that has since gone on to capture a decent amount of share in a market that in recent years has mushroomed in terms of investment and profile for new businesses.  

NexTravel now stands alongside a number of peers in the startup wing of business travel that are giving the incumbents - the large travel management companies - plenty to think about.

Lam is this week's guest on How I Got Here. 

HIGH is a weekly show produced by PhocusWire and Mozio, aimed at getting the inside stories behind startups and innovation in travel and transportation.

It's hosted by our editor in chief, Kevin May, and Mozio co-founder and CEO David Litwak.

A full transcript and additional analysis in 5+ languages is available on Mozio.com/move.

Here is the video version via PhocusWire's YouTube channel: