Kevin Ryan Asks Jetsetter CEO Drew Patterson to Step Down After ‘Mutiny’ From Staffers. "From an internal morale point of view, things have not gone as well as they should have," says Gilt Groupe CEO Kevin Ryan.
By Nitasha Tiku 5/15/12 3:11pm Share this: Mr. Patterson via @jetsetdrew Gilt Groupe founder Kevin Ryan and chairman Susan Lyne spent Monday at the offices of Jetsetter, a deals site for luxury travel that operates independently under the Gilt Groupe umbrella. “Drew [Patterson, the company's CEO and cofounder] is going to step down effective immediately,” Mr. Mr. Interviews with staffers, who spoke under condition of anonymity last week, painted the picture of a company hampered by Mr. The way some employees tell it, morale started nose dive around the time Barry Herstein, the company’s first-ever chief marketing officer, left Jetsetter. But Mr. Turnover and disagreement over direction are routine for a startup, but Mr. Sensing unease among the ranks, two weeks ago, Mr. The company also disputed employee statements that Jetsetter’s UK office, one of Mr.
Mr. Mr. Undo. Curated Hotel Information vs Crowd-sourced Content. Curated Hotel Information vs Crowd-sourced Content Sarah Lacy, in her typically classy and insightful travel content, points out in TechCrunch that basically we all know what to expect from an airline, no matter what airline or in what country.
We all get the bad legroom, the free soda, the predictable (if you're lucky) arrival and departure times, all of which make air travel a ho-hum, uninteresting and non-memorable part of travel But, Lacy says, a hotel is a different story. It's your home away from home, your home base and the kind of hotel, the quality of the service can make or break the travel experience and important travel memories. So when Jetsetter, which ran an invitation-only community of travelers, launched a personal travel planning service, the Washington Post called it “essentially a travel agent 2.0” You get $100 back if you book a hotel through the site.
Hotel Deals and Vacation Homes - Jetsetter. Jetsetter's New iPad App Is Even Dreamier. Fair warning: This is where I get all MG on you guys. As someone who just spent forty weeks traveling around the world, there is no category of consumer Web sites that makes me angrier than online travel sites. More than any other category on the Web, the early incumbents– online travel agents like Expedia and Travelocity– rafted on an early tidal wave of massive convenience and cost savings only to get lazy and never innovate again. They equated more inventory with innovation and treated every category of travel like the perishable commodity of booking a flight or a rental car. But hotels and getaway packages aren’t commodities. The role of a flight is ultimately getting you from point A to point B as painlessly and on time as possible. And, no, TripAdvisor doesn’t solve this problem. As I’ve written before, I’m thrilled by a new wave — finally!
Yes, Jetsetter has phenomenal design, gorgeous photos and detailed write-ups.