HotelOnline – the story

ByHåvar Bauck

The CEO of Africa Innovation Network, Flemming Sørensen, reached out recently, asking if I could do a video appearance at a seminar, telling the story of HotelOnline.

Sure, I love telling about how Endre and I built our now pretty successful traveltech company. So how to make a video? I neither had the time, nor felt like spending a lot of money to get a professional recording. Time to test the HD video capabilities of my Sony α6000!

Being an avid amateur photographer, I have a few tripods. Cool background for the recording? A nice evening picture of Nairobi CBD on a flash disk, and straight on to my TV.

And the result? Let me know what you think! 😎

In 2017, we carried out Africa’s first equity crowdfunding:

HotelOnline Equity Crowdfunding Video

My speech at the African Union HQ about how we scaled HotelOnline:

HotelOnline: How we scaled across Africa

Find out more about HotelOnline:

https://www.hotelonline.co

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