The conversation
Michael Peres speaks with Goedele Mangelaars, solo founder of Pink Notebook, an AI-powered trip planning platform designed to make travel planning more visual, collaborative, and actually useful. With a life shaped by constant travel across the U.S. and London, plus experience at Skyscanner, Terra API, and Captify, Goedele brings a sharp perspective on why planning trips still feels more broken than it should.
In this episode, you’ll learn
- How growing up across countries shaped Goedele’s relationship with travel and problem-solving
- What it’s really like building as a solo, female, non-technical founder
- Why she rejects the “move fast and break things” startup mindset
- The challenge of building across both U.S. and European markets
- What most AI travel planners still get wrong, and how Pink Notebook approaches it differently
Meet the guests
Goedele Mangelaars is the solo founder of Pink Notebook, an AI-powered trip planning platform rethinking how we plan travel – with visual inspiration, social collaboration, and seamless booking in one place.
