#14: Owning the Biggest Niche in Travel Tech, Mike Stacy - CEO of ID90 Travel

Mike Stacy has been CEO of ID90 Travel since 2011. Mike has a long history leading and growing online travel businesses, including Travelocity, CheapTickets.com, Groopie.com, and others. Mike is originally from Michigan. He and his family have lived in the Dallas area for over 10 years. ID90 Travel is the leading travel booking app for airline employees to book airlines, hotels, cars, and cruises using their employee flight privileges and other discounts. Airline companies reduce the internal costs of managing employee travel bookings. ID90 was founded in 2009, funded in 2013, and is based in Southlake with 75 employees.

In this episode, Mike shares the story of how ID90 was founded to solve a specific internal problem for airline companies, how ID90 grew with an expanded strategy and strategic funding, and how ID90 survived the travel downturn of 2020. Mike shares his 20-year background in the online travel booking industry and why he and his family love living in the Dallas area.