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Rick Steves' Europe: Rick Steves (2021)

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So you know. I'm actually old enough to remember what it was like to travel overseas with just a guidebo to get around. No smartphones, no GPS, no easy internet, no influencers telling us what we were supposed to do, no long lines at gelato shops. Anyway, for those of you who remember that time and especially for those of you who don't, this episode is for you. And we first ran it back in the spring of twenty twenty one. Enjoy.

Did you sit down and say, Okay, this is the strategy. We're gonna create a travel business and we're gonna do all these different things. Or Do the things that eventually h happen kind of just happen haphazardly? I never really wanted to look in the book and say, Oh, now you have a C O O Now you have a C F O I don't even know what that stuff is until it becomes apparent, Oh, we need a guy to do this and then they go, Yeah That's called a a a a CFO. We're just kinda going, Oh, that's why they have that.

Welcome to How I Built This, a show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements. The built. I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today. how Rick Steves backpacked around Europe on bread and jam and a few dollars a day. And turned his passion for no frills travel

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