Business Innovator: Diego Saez-Gil

Sitting in a dingy Internet café in a strange city and paying in 15-minute increments to use a computer is no traveler’s idea of fun. After backpacking through 23 European countries, Argentine-born Diego Saez-Gil knew there had to be a better alternative. The advent of smartphones inspired him to invent one: an app that could replace websites as the go-to-source for travelers looking for accommodations as well as new friends on the road.

Saez-Gil, who has an MBA from the Universitat Ramon Llull in Barcelona, Spain, pooled his savings with Chris Piazza, an American, and Alex...

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