Hopper would perhaps be the first to admit that it spent a lot of time (and investment) building and evolving the product.
But that prolonged period of development is paying off, having found itself as one of the most popular travel apps in the U.S. and getting a lot of attention for its approach to providing a unique way of finding air tickets (and now hotels).
At the heart of the mobile-only Hopper business is its use of artificial intelligence and number-crunching to analyze millions of data points to give travelers the best information as to when and who with they should buy their flight or hotel.
Joost Ouwerkerk, co-founder and CTO at Hopper, was on the roster at Phocuswright Europe 2018 to give a highly visual perspective on how it deals with data, and the back story behind AI in the travel industry.
The Tech Talk - Hopper
He then took questions from PhocusWire's Mitra Sorrells...
Post-match interview: Joost Ouwerkerk of Hopper