Adam Schwab from Luxury Escapes | Checkout #264

Adam Schwab is the Co-Founder and CEO of Luxury Escapes, one of the world's fastest growing online travel sites. Adam was originally a corporate lawyer specialising in Mergers & Acquisitions at HerbertSmithFreehills before becoming a founding director of privately-owned corporate accommodation and services group, Living Corporate Apartments, before founding what would become Luxury Escapes with school friend, Jeremy Same. Adam is a financial journalist and business commentator specialising in corporate governance, economics and start-ups. In 2010, Adam released the Amazon (microeconomics) bestseller, ‘Pigs at the Trough: Lessons from Australia’s Decade of Corporate Greed’, published by John Wiley & Sons. In addition to Luxury Escapes, Adam has been a director of the Myeloma Foundation of Australia for 10 years, and has run two Melbourne Marathons completely barefoot to raise funds for the foundation.

In this episode of Add To Cart, we checkout Adam Schwab, Co founder and CEO of Luxury Escapes, the travel brand offering highly curated, easily bookable holidays with exclusive discounts and inclusions. What began in Melbourne as a small start up in 2013, now has over 4.2 million global members and major offices in Australia, India, New Zealand, the US and the UK.

Can you recommend a book or a podcast that our listeners should immediately get into?

“My favourite podcast still is probably Pivot with Scott Galloway and Kara which it’s a great wrap of news. Great tech podcast. I think it’s great.

And How I Built This. Always classic as well.

I listened to the Chipotle episode recently which is an absolute belter. There’s a team of eight producers on that show and Guy is a superstar. It’s a heavy investment. The fact that kind of stuff is free is actually incredible.”

The Checkout is a short snippet of our conversations. To hear the full interview, tune in to our main episode below.