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Who founded Hopper and when?
TechCrunch reported on 2022-11-07 that Hopper was founded by Frederic Lalonde and Joost Ouwerkerk in 2007, and spent six years in stealth building a large structured database of travel information before its app took off.
Is Frederic Lalonde still Hopper's CEO?
Yes. A Hopper newsroom release dated 2026-07-07 quotes Lalonde as CEO of Hopper, and RBC's Disruptors podcast, published 2026-05-26, describes Lalonde as founder and CEO of Hopper and co-founder of Deep Sky.
What did Frederic Lalonde do before Hopper?
On RBC's Disruptors podcast, published 2026-05-26, Lalonde said Expedia bought a company Lalonde had built when Lalonde was 28, and that Expedia then brought Lalonde to Seattle.
How did Hopper change direction early on?
BetaKit reported on 2017-04-02 that Lalonde said Hopper first set out to help people choose destinations and book flights, then shifted to forecasting airfares after seeing how anxious travellers were about when to buy, and moved from the web to a mobile-only app.