15: Flying High at 20: How Cornell U Senior Rob Karp is Miles Ahead [Main T4C Episode]

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Rob Karp founded MilesAhead the day before his 15th birthday. Since then he has been passionate about the travel industry and building his own business. Today, Rob is 20 years old and has just started his senior year at *Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration. As CEO of MilesAhead, a luxury travel concierge in partnership with the Valerie Wilson Travel,  Rob is the youngest travel advisor in the Virtuoso network. Since launching MilesAhead in 2012, Rob has built a team of 12 other college students and is logging over a million dollars in revenue. In this episode of Time4Coffee, Rob shares how he built MilesAhead and why his current focus is on becoming a better listener.

*Rob graduated from Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration with a B.S.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT IN THIS EPISODE:

• What a luxury travel agent is (2:04)
• How to turn a dream into reality, at any age (4:32)
• How Rob uses what he learns in classes at Cornell U to improve MilesAhead (6:57)
• What it takes to balance a full-time job with your school work and personal life (9:01)
• How to use your self-doubt as fuel to motivate yourself (13:34)
• What the most important skill you need to succeed is (17:50)

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