Ivan Amiguet
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Ivan Amiguet

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Ivan Amiguet has spent more than three decades working in large companies, running businesses, building and selling companies, travelling and writing.

He has never been very good at accepting that something makes sense simply because it has always been done that way. When something stops making sense, he wants to understand why. And if the old answer no longer works, he would rather try to build a better one.

That instinct has shaped much of his life.

He first discovered hostels as a traveller. Years later, he found himself on the other side, leading a company in Spain that operated hostels and hotels. The experience changed the way he looked at the industry. Hostels were becoming more professional, but they were also borrowing more and more of the logic of hotels, even though much of what makes a hostel valuable comes from something very different: the people, the atmosphere and what happens between them.

That eventually became LEAN HOSTELS.

Later, the same way of questioning things led him to Revenue Management. He had spent years working with pricing, demand and business performance, but kept coming back to the same problem: a decision could look right in the numbers and still change something important elsewhere. A higher price could change the product. More demand could change the people who came next. Growth could improve today’s results while weakening something the business would need tomorrow.

That became Revenue Harmony Management.

Today Ivan is the founder of Roitels and co-founder of HostelSphere. His work has also moved into a question that reaches far beyond hospitality: as artificial intelligence becomes dramatically more capable, will humans understand more, or simply depend on systems they understand less?

That question sits behind Meaning Intelligence, the work Roitels is now developing around technology, understanding and keeping important decisions in human hands.

Writing has become central to how Ivan works. It forces him to question what he thinks he knows and to take an idea far enough that it can stand without him in the room.

For him, an idea matters when it can survive reality and become something other people can use: a method, a discipline, a product, a company or a book.

Ivan is the author and creator of LEAN HOSTELS and Revenue Harmony Management.
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