Navan Co-Founder & CEO on disrupting business travel, scaling globally & why AI companies use Navan

Ann Berry is joined by Ariel Cohen, Co-Founder and CEO of Navan, to discuss how the company is modernizing business travel, leveraging AI to improve the traveler experience, and pursuing acquisitions to support its global expansion.
00:00 Ariel Cohen, CEO and Co-Founder of Navan, joins
01:25 What Navan does: corporate travel and expense management explained
02:51 Inside the Navan app
05:10 Navan's customer base
06:07 Who Navan sells to
07:52 Legacy travel software
09:03 Why AI companies still need Navan
12:48 Where Navan invests in R&D
14:24 Navan Edge: AI travel assistant
16:24 Disrupting the travel industry
17:56 Navan's M&A ambitions
18:49 Inside the Brazil acquisition
22:04 The blurring line between business and personal travel
24:48 Travel destination trends
26:45 Outro and upcoming episodes
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