This podcast is producted by WeYield, the revenue management company dedicated to the car rental industry.
In this episode, Emmanuel Scuto, Founder and CEO of WeYield, interviews Michael Meyer, Founder and CEO of Rate Highway. Established in Irvine, California, Rate Highway has a 20-year long well known experience in the automated rate positioning technology for the car rental industry.
Michael started is career in the mid-1980 and saw all the evolution of the technology from his first Commodore computer to today internet predominancy in all our life.
Timeline
- 0:00:00 to 0:05:50 Introduction of Michael
- 0:05:50 to 0:08:26 How programing became the core of problem solving
- 0:08:26 to 0:33:00 Symmetry Computing, first company
- 0:33:00 to 0:42:00 Rateshoping started in hotels
- 0:42:00 to 1:00:00 US market vs the rest of the world
- 1:00:00 to 1:12:00 How has the techno impacted Ratehighway?
- 1:12:00 to end How does Michael learn and improve?
Book references:
- The phantom Tollbooth from Norton Juster
- The Power of Habit from Charles Duhigg
