Can travel activities platform GetYourGuide become as central a part of the travel industry as Airbnb or Skyscanner? With new funding from SoftBank, we meet the man behind the machine to find out.
Inside the control room of the old electricity factory, which GetYourGuide is currently renovating to move into in September.
Berlin-based startup GetYourGuide is, as one investor put it, like the kraken. It’s big and its tentacles reach far — yet you might not know it’s there until you stumble across it.
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Johannes Reck (left) and Tao Tao, two of the four founders of GetYourGuide.
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