Carl Peel
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So the reason why we bought mini cards is because mini cards had access to all these hotels that we didn't have access to.
And it would give us an opportunity to give this platform, this kind of like concierge platform to them.
So we were already working with a hundred schools.
We also worked with universities like SOAS and King's organizing the international student social program.
And then we saw this opportunity to extend to these hotels.
and mini-card was the perfect platform.
Companies were paying to advertise and on top of that, we would have the opportunity to sell our tickets.
What we didn't foresee is that students started photocopying our tickets and because none of the attractions actually scan third-party tickets,
People were let through and we had to pay for those.
So the company almost went under.
It was a massive nightmare.
And that's when I realized there is no hub for tickets.
There's no way to connect distribution and supplier.
And we're talking this 10 years ago.
And so that's why we decided to first launch a little scanner that would connect to Expedia, TripAdvisor, etc.
And allow the suppliers or the museums of St.
No, so everything is out of the box.
So you use an iPhone and Android, and then you just buy your own sum up device, or iZettle, and then a printer if you need it.
So we have between 250 and 300 customers at the minute.
Exactly.