Steve Domin, Founder & CEO of Duffel, the company rebuilding the infrastructure layer of the global travel industry.

Duffel is taking on one of the most complex and outdated sectors, creating modern, developer-first APIs for flights, hotels, and more. Backed by investors including Index Ventures and Benchmark, the company has raised over $50M to transform how travel is bought and sold.

Steve shares the journey of building Duffel from scratch, including:

  •  Why the travel industry is fundamentally broken 
  •  The insight that led to Duffel’s API-first approach 
  •  Building deep supply-side integrations with airlines and incumbents 
  •  Navigating COVID when travel demand dropped to zero 
  •  The painful reality of scaling, resetting, and rebuilding product-market fit 
  •  Where long-term defensibility comes from in complex infrastructure businesses 

We also explore:

  •  What makes companies like GoCardless “talent factories” 
  •  How AI is changing how modern engineering teams are built 
  •  The future of smaller, highly efficient companies 
  •  Steve’s view on the next generation of AI-native products 

This is a masterclass in persistence, infrastructure thinking, and building through uncertainty.

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