Why can you order an Uber within seconds but booking a hotel room still feels like filing a tax return? That is the question Frédéric Robles could not let go of. A tech and antitrust lawyer at Sullivan & Cromwell and Amazon, he walked away from law in 2021 to build Namastay, a modern booking engine now live in over 400 hotels across 42 countries. He joins Matt to talk about why most hotels are stuck below 15 percent of direct bookings, and how payment optimization, including digital wallets like Apple Pay, can shift that number.


Frédéric Robles is CEO and Co-founder of Namastay. Frédéric is not your typical hospitality founder. He spent over a decade as a tech and antitrust lawyer, having worked at Sullivan & Cromwell and Amazon, before walking away from all of that in 2021 to start Namastay. The idea is to make direct hotel bookings and payments as easy as possible. Namastay is live in over 400 hotels across 42 countries, working with names like Relais & Châteaux and Preferred Hotels & Resorts, and plugged into platforms like Mews.


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