Oliver Dlouhý (born 7 January 1988) is a

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entrepreneur, founder and CEO of the online travel agency

Kiwi.com Kiwi.com (previously known as skypicker.com) is a Czech online travel agency founded by Oliver Dlouhý and Jozef Képesi in 2012. Kiwi.com provides a fare aggregator, metasearch engine and booking for airline tickets and ground transportatio ...

. The

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business magazine included Oliver to ''Forbes Czech'' "30 under 30". On 30 May 2016

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invited Oliver to explain how the unique searching algorithm works. In August 2017 the company provided access to over 700 airlines and served over 50 million searches daily. For the 7165% growth the company was ranked 7th in Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Awards, category Fast 500

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in 2017. In May 2017 Oliver said he expects to double the company's sales to 700 million euros and in 2018 to grow faster due to expansion of database connections and adding the ground transport. On 3 March 2020 the Czech prime minister

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gave him the award 'Podnikatel roku' (Entrepreneur of the Year) 2019, in which the turnover of

exceeded 30 billion Czech crowns.

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*https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliverdlouhy *https://twitter.com/oliverdlouhy *https://www.kiwi.com/en/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Dlouhý, Oliver 1988 births Czech businesspeople Czech company founders Living people

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