Education

Cornell University

B.S., Hotel Administration

2019

Podcasts

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

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..

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129: How to Break Into the Luxury Travel Industry w/ Rob Karp, MilesAhead [Espresso Shots]

Career Path

Interview Highlights

“As great as a business is, in my opinion, your priorities need to be your friends and family, the people that love you and the people who you love.”

Best Career Advice

“Put yourself out there. The only thing that people can do is say no, and the thing is, you never know what’s going to happen when you try.”

Career Challenge

“Our biggest challenge still today and still was then, is organization. We did not have a way that we were tracking when our clients were traveling. Today, we have an entire calendar knowing when everyone’s going away, we get month reminders to week reminders, week before reminders day before. What we started to do is we check in every single one of our clients’ flights, meaning that we need to have everything from passport numbers to when they leave to flight numbers, confirmations, expiration dates, and if any one of those details does not match up correctly, it doesn’t go through successfully.”

Skills

Travel Management, Hotels, Online Travel, Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Microsoft Office, Leadership, Team Management

Professional Interests

Ray Dalio, Mike Bloomberg, Mark Cuban, JPMorgan Chase & Co, American Express, McKinsey & Company, Cornell Hotel Society Global, Travel Professionals, Travel, Tourism & Hospitality Group | Wellness Travel, Luxury Wellness & Other Niche Travel Trends, The Wharton School, New York University, Cornell University