Luca De Giglio | Chief Executive Officer
Trips Community

Luca has always been 5 to 10 years ahead in the vacation rentals industry and is also one of the most experienced thought leaders, having been in the industry since 2001.
He created an "Airbnb before Airbnb" lifestyle business 7 years before Airbnb and this funded his world travels for 10 years.
He was a digital nomad and had a travel blog before these terms where even invented.
He speaks 7 languages.
When Airbnb disrupted everything he launched a startup serving Hosts and Property Managers but quickly realised there was a strong imbalance in the ecosystem, where OTAs have too much power and extract too much of the value.
In 2013 he go involved in Bitcoin and in 2017 he finally saw the light with Ethereum's promise to create Decentralised Autonomous Organizations (DAOs).
Je realised this is the internet for the next two decades and jumped right into it.
He set up on a mission to ride the wave of the new internet, where value extracting OTAs business models will become obsolete in a few years.
With Trips and the Community he wants to create a neutral booking platform where value is captured and distributed at the network level, with no companies and hierarchical structures.
In short: an OTA platform without an OTA company. Just a protocol running basically for free and governed by the network. The corporation of the future.