Value clashes

What are the consequences of hiring ‘brilliant jerks’?

Javier Suarez
Co-founder & CEO | Oliva
Javier Suarez is CEO & Co-founder of Oliva. Previously leading innovation at Booking.com, Javi decided to take on the travel industry by founding the business startup TravelPerk, where he was also CPO. Over five years, he built the company from 3 to 300+ employees with thousands of organisations as customers, turning TravelPerk into Europe’s fastest-growing tech startup by SaaS1000.
But success means nothing to Javier unless a proactive, open culture takes centre stage. That’s why he co-founded Oliva, partnering with companies to foster meaningful change through employee wellbeing.

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