Everyone hates filing expense reports. Everyone hates booking business travel. Ariel Cohen decided to build a company around fixing both.
Brian Sozzi sits down with the Navan founder and CEO to discuss disrupting the business travel industry, competing against legacy software giants, building with AI, and what it takes to reinvent a system that millions of employees use every day.
The conversation explores entrepreneurship, AI, leadership, company culture, work-life balance, and the challenges of building a category-defining business.
Timestamps
00:00 Why he founded Navan
01:08 The hotel disaster story
02:23 Fixing broken travel software
03:38 Learning a new industry
05:02 Taking on SAP
06:04 Why old systems fail
07:31 His first startup lesson
10:22 Why investors needed AI
12:17 AI is changing travel
16:31 The future of AI agents
19:14 Can founders have balance?
22:45 Advice for entrepreneurs
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