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The unlikely origin of a $2.5 billion hospitality unicorn: a bored teenager working the night shift at his family business

  • Richard Valtr built Mews after getting fed up at 14 doing 1 a.m. night audits at his family’s Prague hotel — he wanted to stop manually matching credit-card slips.
  • Today Mews is a $2.5B hospitality-tech unicorn serving ~15,000 properties in 85 countries and processing nearly $20B in annual transactions.
  • Valtr credits success to building the product from hotel-floor experience (“dogfooding”) and focusing on guest experience — Mews has won Best PMS three years running.
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