Banking Bad: Surviving the Dotcom Bubble with Martha Lane Fox, Lastminute.com
The Wallet10 Nov 2023

Banking Bad: Surviving the Dotcom Bubble with Martha Lane Fox, Lastminute.com

💸Welcome to Banking Bad - a podcast series featuring six true-crime stories from the world of money.


In this episode, I speak to Martha Lane Fox, the co-founder of lastminute.com, Europe’s biggest travel and leisure website. She started the company in 1998 with Brent Hoberman, and sold it in 2005 for a whopping £577 million when she was only 31. We revisit this fascinating story and discuss how they raised money for their innovative idea, how they became one of the most popular online travel platforms during the dotcom boom of the early 2000s, what happened after they went public, and how Martha’s life was changed by a serious accident.

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