INTERVIEW
THE TRAVEL TECH scene is growing rapidly with new apps popping up on a daily basis . This is a hard market to break into and even for successful businesses , launching an app isn ’ t without its challenges . We spoke to French entrepreneur Alban Sayag about his app WINGiT , which allows users to find out what ’ s happening near them and book tickets straight through the app , all in real time .
Sayag comes from a business background and launched his first start up at 19 . He says : “ It was for the first wireless ear piece for mobile phones . The technology was very close to what would become Bluetooth . We had to close the business after three years because Bluetooth came on the market and was instantly huge . “ I then started a consulting company , developing apps and websites for other companies . It was quite successful and I sold the business to Capgemini , one of the biggest consulting companies in the world . I worked for them for six years , heading up the business unit and a team of 50 people . I was just 25 at the time . I then spent
one year on the other side of the business for an investor Alcatel- Lucent before I created WINGiT .”
As with most successful apps , the idea came from a real need for this in the market . It all started when Sayag was out with friends and needed something to do . The internet and travel apps couldn ’ t quite deliver when it came to events that were happening in the area that evening and so the idea for WINGiT was born .
8 April 2016