{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Future Lanes Ep 1: A Founder\u2019s Journey | How Meili is disrupting car rental and rewriting travel tech","description":"\u201cScale and volume help you kill smaller competitors. But ultimately, disruptive technology can always kill a giant, and we killed giants in our last business, and we're going to kill them again in this business, simply because we have a disruptive stack that is just impossible for the big guys to copy.\u201d \u2013 Bobby Healy, Co-founder, Meili In the competitive world of travel technology, Irish entrepreneurs, Bobby Healy and Mike McGearty, are making waves with their latest venture, Meili. Founded in Dublin in 2021, Meili is setting out to disrupt the global car rental industry by enabling direct connections between car partners and customers. Their mission? To eliminate intermediaries and deliver a seamless, frictionless car rental experience. The startup is already live with nearly 40 customers, including airlines, train operators, hotel groups, and super-apps. By leveraging advanced AI and a proprietary tech stack, Meili is redefining ancillary distribution while building on decades of domain expertise. ----------------------------------------------------- \u201cFuture Lanes\u201d is a special WiT Podcast series powered by Meili, a tech company that is rewriting the rules of ancillary distribution. The series, covering six episodes, is all about getting direct \u2013 cutting through the noise with unfiltered conversations on what\u2019s shaping the next decade of travel. No fluff \u2013 just straight, feisty talk about what it takes to find your future lane in travel. ","author_name":"The WiT Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/thewitpodcast.libsyn.com\/website","html":"