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Rolf Schrömgens

Rolf Schrömgens

Entrepreneur and former CEO of trivago

Sep 27, 2026

13:54
Did you have any principles inside of the company that allowed you to do that, to basically push biocracy outside? If yes, how did this look like?
14:04
Mm.
14:06
I think there is a size from which on you have a tendency to bureaucratize, to create structures and rule sets and so on and so on.
14:20
And to a specific degree, that makes also sense.
14:25
So it's not that I'm generally saying it's completely insane to build structures.
14:30
No, structures make sense.
14:32
I just think that a lot of structures are built out of fear.

6 MINS LATER

20:19
What is also interesting to me, when it came to hiring, what were the hiring principles that you had? Did you look especially for hiring founders or yeah, what were the principles?

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