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About Travelaxe
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Overview
Travelaxe, Inc. is a leading provider of hotel rate search systems used by
leisure and business travelers for finding and booking hotel rooms. Travelaxe, Inc. was
started after realizing that no other company existed that is harnessing the distributed
power of the Internet to save travelers time and money.
There are lots of travel websites on the Internet, and they often have drastically
different prices for hotel rooms. And most importantly, no one single website has
the best rates. Doing a manual comparison between travel websites
requires a lot of time and knowledge of the travel websites. When planning a trip,
one could spend 4 hours or more manually searching only 3 or 4 websites for the best prices.
Travelaxe came out of a natural need to do this quickly while finding the best prices
available from as many sources as possible.
Carl Samos
Founder, President, CEO and Chairman
The Travelaxe team is lead by founder Carl Samos, an Internet pioneer with over
19 years of professional software development, management and executive experience.
Prior to starting Travelaxe, Carl was the Founder and CTO of Knowitall, Inc., a software
company that developed collaboration technologies for businesses.
Before Knowitall, Carl participated in the start-up and technology development of
pcOrder.com, an electronic commerce technology provider for the computer industry that
spun off from Trilogy Software.
pcOrder consummated an initial public offering in February 1999.
Carl began his career at the University of Illinois, where he studied Computer Science
for 9 years. He was the lead developer for the Computational Modeling Lab,
a lab dedicated to creating applications such as iwgAIDS, the leading tool for
modeling the AIDS pandemic worldwide. Carl then joined the National Center for
Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), leading the development of Mosaic,
the famous World Wide Web browser. The most notable company to license Mosaic was
Microsoft, who utilized the software code to create Internet Explorer.
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