About this episode

Ziggy Hallgarten discusses his journey of building an AI solution to improve hotel deal analysis, sharing insights from the ALIS Conference.

If you're still tracking your hotel pipeline in Excel and spending two hours screening each deal, you're working harder than you need to. Ziggy Hallgarten lived with that frustration as an analyst, so he built the solution. In this episode, you'll get fresh market insights from the ALIS Conference, learn how AI can cut your deal analysis time dramatically, and hear what the entrepreneurial journey looks like when you're solving a problem you experienced yourself. A Cornell Hotel School gradua...

People in this episode

Host: Michael Russell

Guest: Ziggy Hallgarten

Topics covered

• hotel investment
• AI in deal analysis
• entrepreneurial journey
• market insights
• hotel pipeline management

Keywords

• hotel pipeline
• AI
• deal analysis
• entrepreneurship
• market insights

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cornell Hotel School

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